Table of Contents

2010 Winter

Religion

Introductory

• Mandates of Heaven: by Lewis H. Lapham

Voices in Time

Declarations of Faith

• Michel Onfray Answers a Question: 2009 / Caen
• Sermon on the Mount: c.30 / Galilee
• Albert Einstein Solves the Equation: 1939 / Princeton
• De Tocqueville Identifies a Principle of Human Nature: 1835 / United States
• The Law: c.1377 / Algeria
• Mother of the Gods: c. 600 BC / Greece
• Inquitity: c. 1725 / Étrépigny
• Jonathan Edwards Bends the Bow of God’s Wrath: 1741 / Connecticut
• Circumcision: c. 1250 / France
• Corpse-Worshipping: 1913 / Kraków
• Crowd Control: c. 400 / Athens
• Gianfrancesco Straparola Damns an Impertinent Soul: 1553 / Como
• Be Not Curious: 1855 / Brooklyn
• As in a Great Theater: 1755 / Edinburgh
• Émile Zola Observes an Exorcism: c. 1870 / Brittany
• Among Scorpions: 1520 / Wittenberg
• The Gospel According to Jorge Luis Borges: 1928 / Argentina
• Wheel of Truth: c. 1260 / Japan
• The Great Escape: 1922 / Moscow
• Opium Den: 1843 / Kreuznach
• Flannery O'Connor Presents a Prophet: 1949 / Tennessee
• Voices of God: 1431 / Rouen
• Let Not Demons Dance: 384 / Rome
• Heaven's Flame: 1808 / Weimar
• Painted Wood: 1823 / England
• A Great Secret: c. 1368 / Shiraz
• Marilynne Robinson Raises an Objection: 1997 / Iowa City

Acts of Faith

• Alma Guillermoprieto in the Presence of the Spirits: 1991 / Rio de Janeiro
• Isaac Bashevis Singer Saves a Soul: 1648 / Poland
• Even Shepherd Boys Know the Dao: c. 750 / China
• Fire and Smoke: c. 1100 / Constantinople
• Channel of Blood: 1901 / Edinburgh
• Communion: c1565 / Ávila
• Helping Hand: c. 363 / Antioch
• Church and State: 1779 / Monticello
• Deification: 332 BC / Egypt
• God Hides His Face: 1943 / Warsaw
• Fool's Gold: c. 547 / Lydia
• It’s That Simple: 1887 / Indiana
• Splitting Hairs: 778 / Sargossa
• Music of Mourning: c. 2300 BC / Sumer
• John Updike Hears a Point of Confession: 1960 / Mt. Judge
• Euripides Beholds Dionysus: c. 410 BC / Thebes
• Clad in Robes of Spotless White: c. 1905 / United States
• Proper Order: c. 260 BC / China
• Remonstrance: 819 / Chang’an
• Division of the Souls: 1764 / Ferney
• The Power of Prayer: c. 1185 / Syria
• Burnt Offering: c. 1850 BC / Moriah
• Into the Wild: c. 1922 / Nunavut
• Contrition: 1916 / Dublin
• Resurrection: c.1623 / London
• Jon Krakauer Among the Mormons: 1982 / Utah
• Waste Not: 1904 / Heidelberg
• Blood on the Altar: c. 166 BC / Judaea
• Promised Land: 1896 / Paris
• The Gates of Repentance: 1527 / Hindustan
• Who Knows Why?: c. 1880 / England
• Phillip Roth Visits the American-Jewish Australia: 1978 / Tel Aviv

Crises of Faith

• Orhan Pamuk Sees a Snowflake: 1990 / Kars
• Searching for God: 1879 / Yasnaya Polyana
• Government Policy: c. 110 / Bithynia
• Aboard the Angelic Train: 1773 / Boston
• H.L. Mencken Uneasy in Zion: 1925 / Dayton, TN
• Burning Discontent: c. 1177 / Neyshabur
• Obituary Notice: 1882 / Sils-Maria
• Mary McCarthy Loses Her Faith: c. 1923 / Seattle
• The Devil Vanquished: c. 987 / Kiev
• God Wills It: 1862 / Washington, DC
• Point of Order: 1805 / Buffalo Grove, NY
• Thomas More Poses an Alternative: 1516 / Utopia
• Saadat Hasan Manto in the Time of Troubles: 1947 / Amritsar
• Inquisition: 1252 / Rome
• Jumbled Atoms: c. 58 / Rome
• Answered Prayer: c. 1980 / Bombay
• A Wager: c. 1657 / Paris
• Lay Down Your Arms: 1513 / Spain
• Iris Murdoch Hears a Confession: c. 1979 / London
• God Sees All: c. 620 / Arabia
• Eluding the Devil: 1942 / England
• Spiritual Thirst: c. 500 BC / Nepal
• The Rise and Fall of James Baldwin: c. 1938 / New York City

Departments

Essays

• Church & State in America: by Elisabeth Sifton
• The Courtesy of God: by Garret Keizer
• The Original Sin: by Francine Prose
• Secular Revival: by Warren Breckman

Conversations

• Søren Kierkegaard & Bertrand Russell: Define “Faith”
• John Milton & Reinhold Neibuhr: In His Image
• Ralph Waldo Emerson & G. K. Chesterton: What Would Jesus Do?

Reconsiderations

• Freedom by Necessity: Terry Eagleton on “The Grand Inquisitor”

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