CREED & CULTURE
A Touchstone Reader
Edited by James M. Kushiner
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Launched in 1987, Touchstone magazine has served as an indispensable forum for the ecumenical consideration of matters of crucial importance to Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christians. In Creed & Culture, James M. Kushiner brings together twenty-one essays that originally appeared in the magazine. These thoughtful articles by an impressive roster of contributors not only make for absorbing reading, but also constitute a valuable compendium of the best contemporary Christian thinking on literature, culture, and theology. As Kushiner writes in his introduction, these essays "speak conscientiously for the gospel in a time in which creed and culture seem to be at grave risk."
What They're Saying...
"People who are concerned that the Christian intellectual tradition has grown moribund, or that Christian thinkers have lost their nerve in the face of secularism's cultural hegemony, haven't been reading Touchstone. Now is the time to start."
—Robert P. George, author, The Clash of Orthodoxies
In seeking to be both genuinely orthodox and genuinely diverse, and in doing so with flair and acuity, Touchstone calls our era's bluff, and exposes its vaunted 'tolerance' and 'diversity' for the homogenizing crypto-orthodoxy that it is. More power to it."
—Wilfred McClay, Professor of History, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
"Touchstone is a journal at the intersection of orthodoxy and authentic ecumenism, and its literary quality makes it an unfailing pleasure to read."
—Donna Steichen, author, Ungodly Rage
"No one has ever accused Touchstone of being either politically correct or circumspect. It is hard to imagine an issue without something in its pages that wouldn't aggravate each and every reader. Yet Touchstone's editors wrestle with topics that matter and argue not only passionately but thoughtfully."
—Jim Forest, Secretary, Orthodox Peace Fellowship
"Evangelicals sensing they've been robbed of the wisdom of the ages, what Chesterton calls 'the democracy of the dead,' would do well to begin their pilgrimage back by reading the essays in Touchstone."
—Timothy Bayly, Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood
"Edited by a bevy of mainly younger Protestants, Orthodox, and Roman Catholics, Touchstone advances an ecumenism of orthodoxy defined by the Great Tradition. The Touchstone people are bracingly conscientious and determined to follow where the Spirit leads."
—Richard John Neuhaus, Editor-in-Chief, First Things
"Touchstone serves the most significant form of ecumenical endeavor today: the rallying and coalescing of those in all the churches who stand for doctrinal, moral, and devotional orthodoxy. The fact that Touchstone exists to serve this purpose gives it great importance."
—J. I. Packer, author, Knowing God
"Touchstone is the boldest and most exciting journal in the world of twenty-first-century Christian publications. It never fails to inform, challenge, and delight."
—Allan Carlson, President, The Howard Center for Family, Religion, & Society
Contributors/Chapters include:
- James Hitchcock — Christ and Culture: A Dilemma Reconsidered; Huston Smith — Scientism: The World's Littlest Religion;
- Patrick Henry Reardon — Classroom Chaos; Christology and the Psalter;
- Leon J. Podles — No Place Like Home; All that Separates Must Converge;
- Steven Faulkner — The Century of the Cyclops; The Workshop of Worship;
- Russell Kirk — T. S. Eliot on Literary Morals;
- Thomas Howard — Brideshead Revisited Revisited;
- James L. Sauer — Lessons from the Nursery; An Everlasting Life;
- Philip G. Davis — The Swiss Maharishi;
- Vigen Guroian — Family and Christian Virtue in a Post-Christian World;
- Thomas Howard — Recognizing the Church;
- S. M. Hutchens — The Professor and the Unicorn;
- David Mills — The Bible Tells Me So; Meet the Latcons; Evading the Creed;
- Paul V. Mankowski — A Fig Leaf for the Creed;
- James R. Edwards — New Quest, Old Errors.
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