JIS XV 2003 TOWARD A CULTURE OF LIFE: Restoring Human Felicity JIS XV 2003: 3-22 THE INTRINSIC WORTH OF PERSONS: REVISITING PETER SINGER AND HIS CRITICS Peter J. Colosi Franciscan University, Austria This essay examines various sources of worth…
JIS XIV 2002 RE - INVENTING LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION JIS XIV 2002: 1-24 RENEWING THE LIBERAL ARTS: C. S. LEWIS' ESSENTIAL CHRISTIANITY Oskar Gruenwald Institute for Interdisciplinary Research This essay explores the conceptual foundations of C. S. Lewis' pilgrimage…
JIS XIII 2001 CIVIL SOCIETY & RELIGION In the Third Millennium JIS XIII 2001: 1-14 THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL FOUNDATIONS OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND FREE MARKET ECONOMY Gaylen J. Byker Calvin College This essay proposes that a healthy civil society…
JIS XII 2000 ETHICS AND FAITH: The Reality of Absolutes JIS XII 2000: 1-19 APOLOGIZING TO THE POSTMODERNIST * Robert K. Garcia Biola University Postmodernism's censure of metanarratives expresses a moral claim and moral concern about those who have spawned…
JIS XI 1999 THE RESTORATION OF PHILOSOPHY: Interdisciplinary Perspectives JIS XI 1999: 1-38 THE RETURN OF THE GOD HYPOTHESIS * Stephen C. Meyer Whitworth College Historian of science Frederic Burnham has stated that the "God hypothesis" is now a more…
JIS X 1998 BEYOND CULTURE WARS? JIS X 1998: 1-16 CHRISTIANS IN THE ACADEMY: OVERCOMING THE SILENCE William R. Marty University of Memphis The academy in the United States is almost wholly silent about Christianity, at least in the sense…
JIS IX 1997 THE QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL JIS IX 1997: 1-18 LIBERALISM WITHOUT TRANSCENDENCE William R. Marty University of Memphis John Hallowell's seminal study, originally published in 1943, treats modern Western thought since the Renaissance and the Reformation…
JIS VIII 1996 THE CITY IN THE 21st CENTURY JIS VIII 1996: 1-18 THE CITY UNDER SIEGE: DRUGS AND CRIME George B. Palermo, M.D. Medical College of Wisconsin This essay explores the impact of alcohol and drug abuse on…
JIS VII 1995 THE FAMILY JIS VII 1995: 1-24 GOVERNMENT, MORALITY AND THE FAMILY William R. Marty University of Memphis The question of government and morality is raised by public clashes over the proper role, if any, of government regulation…
JIS VI 1994 RELIGIOUS RESURGENCE IN THE MODERN WORLD JIS VI 1994: 1-23 SCIENCE AND RELIGION: THE MISSING LINK * Oskar Gruenwald Institute for Interdisciplinary Research Contemporary natural science is returning to the question of First Principles concerning the origin,…
JIS V 1993 The Unity of the Arts & Sciences JIS V 1993: 3-24 THE MUSICAL ROOTS OF WESTERN MATHEMATICS * David Grandy Brigham Young University-Hawaii Alfred North Whitehead stated that mathematics and music compete with each other for the…
JIS IV 1992 The Rediscovery of America & Europe, 1992 JIS IV 1992: 1-26 CULTURAL THEORY, ETHICS AND POLITICS Oskar Gruenwald Institute for Interdisciplinary Research Political culture theory enjoyed a revival during the 1980s despite its alleged inability to account…
