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Preamble

Mandates of Heaven

By Lewis H. Lapham

Finding religion in the strangest of places.

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The garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, c. 1615. Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands.

Essay

The Original Sin

By Francine Prose

Where misogyny comes from—and why it endures.

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Essay

Freedom by Necessity

By Terry Eagleton

A reconsideration of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.

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Faith and Reason United, by Ludwig Seitz, c. 1887. Gallery of the Candelabra, The Vatican Museums, Vatican City.

Essay

The Courtesy of God

By Garret Keizer

Never mind does God exist—does the God debate exist? Reexamining the relationship between faith and reason.

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Essay

Church & State in America

By Elisabeth Sifton

The Founding Fathers approached the church-state conundrum with an intellectual clarity that was characteristic of their times.

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View of the Church of Sloten in the Winter, by Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten, 1640–66. Rijksmuseum.

Essay

Secular Revival

By Warren Breckman

Belief and nonbelief in public life.

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