LIBERTY IN THE THINGS OF GOD: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom by Robert Louis Wilken Yale UP, New Haven, Connecticut Hardcover: 248 pages Price: AUD$46.99 Reviewed by Michael Quinlan Professor Robert Louis Wilken is chairman of the board of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, the publisher of First Things magazine. He is…
chimera noun 1. (In Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. 2. A thing which is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve. Synonyms: illusion, fantasy, delusion, dream, fancy, figment of the imagination, will-o’-the-wisp, phantom, mirage; ignis fatuus As a developed Western…
Contemporary Australia appears to be in revolt against tradition and Christianity. Here Professor Michael Quinlan, Dean of the School of Law, Sydney, of the University of Notre Dame Australia, provides an explanation of what is going on and makes some suggestions about what needs to be done to turn back the revolution and turn things…
Euthanasia and capital punishment both involve state-sanctioned killing: why does the thinking on one seem to be heading in the opposite direction to the thinking on the other? Euthanasia and capital punishment are not often mentioned in the same sentence. Yet both involve state endorsement of the deliberate, premeditated and intentional…
