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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Intense Atheism - Paul VitzI will begin by addressing the deep personal psychology of the great — or at least the passionate and influential — atheists. Email This Article Introduction: The Two Kinds of Honor - James BowmanFrom the earliest records of human civilization until the dawn of the twentieth century, and in widely separated cultures throughout the world, the story of honor was inseparable from the story of mankind. Today, an acquaintance with the concept of honor is indispensable to understanding the culture of the Islamic world and its sense of grievance against the West, where honor has been disregarded or actively despised for three-quarters of a century. Email This Article Is Humanism a Religion? - G.K. ChestertonThere is a certain problem or challenge to modern thought. It is the problem of whether Humanism can satisfy humanity. The question really is whether Humanism can perform all the functions of religion. Email This Article Is The World Falling Apart? - James V. Schall, S.J.“It is a nice day,” I said to a lady in jogging togs as she ran past me in the park. But she said that she “could not enjoy it.” “Why?” I asked. “Well, I am so upset,” she replied. “I have been watching CNN News and the world seems to be falling apart.” Later, as I was reading Aristotle with my class, it was amazing how he was able to put things into perspective. Email This Article Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis - Bernard LewisBernard Lewis has often been described as the West's greatest historian and interpreter of Islam. At a Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life held on April 27 in Washington, D.C., Professor Lewis, in a wide ranging discussion with an assemblage of American writers and thinkers, gives his views of current and future prospects for the West's relationship with Islam. Email This Article Islam: A Primer - Roy MottahedehIn January 2002 a group of journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current religious and cultural issues. The session from which this "Conversation" is drawn featured Harvard historian Roy Mottahedeh, with a response by journalist Jay Tolson. Email This Article It’s Morning After in America - Kay HymowitzWith their genius for problem solving and compromise, pragmatic Americans have seen the damage that their decades-long fling with the sexual revolution and the transvaluation of traditional values wrought. And now, without giving up the real gains, they are earnestly knitting up their unraveled culture. It is a moment of tremendous promise. Email This Article Janet Jackson and the Frog - Peggy NoonanHas our culture gone irredeemably to pot, or can we jump for our lives? Email This Article John Paul II and the Crisis of Humanism - George WeigelJohn Paul II is arguably the iconic figure of the twentieth century because his life has embodied, personally and spiritually, the human crises of our times. Email This Article Keeping the Faith - James E Person, Jr.Looming over the fireplace in the late Russell Kirk’s library in Mecosta, Mich., are three small stone images, statues given to Kirk by the renowned Scots sculptor Hew Lorimer during the 1950s. Email This Article Pages: [<<] ... 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 04-Aug-2008 - 21:01:52
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