Fall 2003
Issue 84

Publication Date: October 1, 2003
Posted: Wednesday, October 10, 2003

This issue features a conference on evangelicals’ contributions to American intellectual life, an Islamic Studies seminar with Abdulaziz Sachedina, and an excerpt from the third issue of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society.


In This Issue :

Reassessment Required
American Muslim intellectuals have a responsibility to be "candid, honest, and energetic" in addressing the problem of Islam’s relationship to democracy and the modern world, declared Abdulaziz Sachedina of the University of Virginia at the October 2 Center seminar "Dissension and Dialogue in the Post-9/11 American Muslim Community."  [More]

Preachings of the Choir
The political reflections of four prominent thinkers who have helped shape evangelical engagement in the public square took center stage at the Center conference entitled "Evangelicals in Civic Life: An Evangelical Intellectual Inventory," held September 21–23 at the Black Point Inn in Prouts Neck, Maine. In separate sessions, J. Budziszewski of the University of Texas assessed the contributions of Carl F. H. Henry, Abraham Kuyper, Francis Schaeffer, and John Howard Yoder, and responded to the subsequent comments of scholars, each an expert in the work of one of the four. [More]

Brave New Womb
From "The Coming of Artificial Wombs"
Proponents of artificial wombs point to what they see as the potential medical benefits of this technology: helping women who have suffered multiple miscarriages due to problems with embryo implantation, or women who have had hysterectomies due to uterine cancer. Other concerns—such as turning procreation into manufacture or severing the biological connection between mothers and newborns—are simply brushed aside. [More]