Creation of Adam (detail), Sistine Chapel Ceiling, by Michelangelo, c. 1508–1512. Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

Creation of Adam (detail), Sistine Chapel ceiling, by Michelangelo, c. 1508–12. Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

Religion

Volume III, Number 1 | winter 2010

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Preamble

Mandates of Heaven

By Lewis H. Lapham

Finding religion in the strangest of places.

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

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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Map

Sacred Ground

Houses of the gods and sites of creation.

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1823 | England

Painted Wood

William Hazlitt dismantles the world of make-believe.More

819 | Chang’an

Remonstrance

Han Yu condemns the barbarism of Buddhism.More

1755 | Edinburgh

As in a Great Theater

David Hume on not fearing the unknown.More

Charts & Graphs

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

The Catholic Church as film critic.

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Jean Meslier.

Black and white photograph of American writer and exponent of Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Engraving of Roman author and administrator Pliny the Younger.

Black and white photograph of critic and novelist Mary McCarthy.

Saint Teresa of Ávila.

Seated man with a large white beard wearing a dark suit

The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

—Empedocles, c. 450 BC

Black and white photograph of American writer and exponent of Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson.

English critic and author G. K. Chesterton.

Ralph Waldo Emerson & G.K. Chesterton

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