Autumn 2005
Featured
Pleasure Principles
Discussion of recent sex crises in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches is frozen by journalistic polarization. A look back at Gregory of Nyssa, and Freud, might help. By Sarah Coakley
From Theologian To Pope
As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, he was portrayed to the public primarily in bumper sticker clichés. One of his former students takes a more nuanced look. By Francis Schüssler Fiorenza
Islam’s Long War Within
The West may just be noticing it, but conflict over a “reformation” has actually been raging in the Muslim world for more than a century and a half. At stake is the faith itself.
By Reza Aslan
Buddhist Studies The Buddhist Way
Scholars of religion should do a better job of contemplating Buddhism with an eye to theoretical axioms that exist in the tradition’s classic texts themselves. By J. C. Cleary
Judaist Israel, Islamist Palestine
The ability of the United States to function as mediator in the Holy Land may require a new American attention to religion. By Jack Miles
Darfur’s Unfinished Story
How did a little-known, and largely ignored, region in western Sudan become the site of such horrific suffering? The answers do not come easily. By Chris Herlinger
Dialogue
Darwin’s Pope?
Has “intelligent design” found a clear-cut friend in Pope Benedict XVI? By Kenneth R. Miller
Amid the Clouds of Unknowing
Judging the love of God. By Todd Shy
Public Decisions, Personal Crisis
A Massachusetts legislator’s quandary on same-sex marriage. By Marian Walsh
‘Out’ Inside the Beltway
The outing of liberal Christians in the wards of American politics. By Amy Sullivan
Differing without Demonizing
Red and blue, or why not purple? By Jon Meacham
In Review
Books
A Mission to China Debriefed
Eric Reinders’s Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion. By Patrick Provost-Smith
Required Reading
The Politics of Memory
Archaeologies of the Greek Past by Susan Alcock and Martyrdom and Memory by Elizabeth Castelli. By Laura Nasrallah
Books
Sacred Space Bridging South to North
An interview with Wallace Best. By Wendy McDowell
Film
Hollywood’s Take on the Crusades
Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven. By Harvey Cox
Shelf Life
Keys to the Interior Kingdom
C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. By Stephanie Paulsell
Poetry
Ladyslipper, Red Eft
By Adrie Kusserow
Theory of Multiplicity
By Mark Doty
Three Poems
Them Again
Night Lights, Providence Amtrak Station
Cab Ride Downtown
By W. S. Di Piero
Perspective
Resolution Where There May Never Be
The writers and artists included in this issue approach their difficult subjects with calm, open determination, with the attitude that creative thinking can still be applied even to those human situations that allow virtually no hope. By Will Joyner
A Look Back
Public Leadership and Civic Renewal
An excerpt from an address Peter Jennings presented at HDS in 1995.
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