Attention: Here’s our table of contents (and an alternative version) for the May issue of Touchstone, which will go to press soon!
Editorial: The War on Error: A Caution on the Business of Confronting Heresy (or Name-Calling & the Danger of Heresy Hunting) by S. M. Hutchens
Columns & Views:
[Spiritual] Truths in [Popular] Fiction by Phillip E. Johnson (or Sci-Fi, Anne Rice & Dean Koontz)
Words’ Worth: Patrick Henry Reardon on the Transcendent Vocabulary of Mundane Signs (or how Fr. Pat Reardon was carried into metaphysical bliss while stuck at a bus stop)
Losing Our Grips: James Hitchcock on the Cultural Suicide of the Newly Enlightened (Church & Media no longer count, but one institution is left standing--and corrupting)
Picture Imperfect: S. M. Hutchens on the Literary Dirt in Harry Potter’s Field (Or is HP Fit For Christian Kids?)
Take & Give: Bruce Brander on Two Words That Describe the Workings of Love (or Why You May Be Taking One Step Forward and Two Steps Backwards as a Spouse)
Abraham & God’s Power by Patrick Henry Reardon
FEATURES
When Gentile Meets Jew [or When Goy Meets Boy]
A Christian Reading of Ruth & the Hebrew Scriptures by Peter J. Leithart (or Is a Christian Reading of the Old Testament Just Religious Imperialism? Ruth's Romance Reveals All)
Lincoln & the Methodists
Circuit Riders, Secret Missions & the Odd Faith of a Civil War President by Matthew May (or How a Lower-Class Religion Maybe Saved the Union or at Least Helped a Little Bit)
REVIEWS
In Defense of Religious Liberty by David Novak
reviewed by Gerald J. Russello
A Credible Witness: Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race by Brenda Salter McNeil
reviewed by Louis Markos
Understanding Four Views on the Lord’s Supper edited by John H. Armstrong
The Lord’s Supper: Five Views edited by Gordon T. Smith
reviewed by Thomas A. Baima
Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists by Collin Hansen
reviewed by Jocelyn Mathewes
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