JIS XXI 2009 CHRISTIANITY & DEMOCRACY: Jacque Maritain in Perspective JIS XXI 2009: 1-24 CULTURE, RELIGION AND POLITICS: WHY LIBERAL DEMOCRACY NEEDS GOD Oskar Gruenwald Institute for Interdisciplinary Research This essay proposes that while a "Christian" democracy may be too…
JIS XX 2008 GLOBALIZATION & ITS DISCONTENTS: Modernization, Culture and Religion JIS XX 2008: 1-20 THE GLOBALIZATION PARADOX Oskar Gruenwald Institute for Interdisciplinary Research Globalization offers a comprehensive framework for addressing prospects for the peaceful evolution of people and societies in…
JIS XIX 2007 VIRTUE ETHICS: Interdisciplinary Perspectives JIS XIX 2007: 1-18 THE TELEOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE Oskar Gruenwald Institute for Interdisciplinary Research This essay proposes that the human quest for meaning, self-realization, and self-transcendence via the moral "ought" as the proper end,…
JIS XVIII 2006 PROPHETS OF POST-COMMUNISM: Toward an Open Society JIS XVIII 2006: 1-24 JOHN F. KENNEDY AND RONALD REAGAN: THE CHALLENGE OF FREEDOM Michael E. Meagher University of Missouri-Rolla Most Americans in the 1920s and 1930s were unaware of…
JIS XVII 2005 SCIENCE AND RELIGION: The Missing Link JIS XVII 2005: 1-24 THE WORD AND THE WORLD * William R. Clough Argosy University-Sarasota Scientists and theologians a priori believe that it is possible and desirable for worldviews to evolve…
JIS XVI 2004 CAN THE MARKET BE MORAL? JIS XVI 2004: 1-19 VIRTUE AND MARKETS Oskar Gruenwald Institute for Interdisciplinary Research This essay proposes an interdisciplinary framework for teaching markets and morals by exploring the linkages between political economy, civil…
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…
