THE WILSON Q'hrte-RLY
S&QQ S?ai^~ 1994 CuKbà $7^0 -. - ^ -- THE WILSONQ'hRTE-RLY -' -'. Can An Intelligent Person Be Religious? Among the well-educated the myth still cir- Thomas More, Dorothy Day, C.S. Lewis, Martin xlates that religion is the preserve of the dim- Luther King, Flannery O'Connor, Mother Teresa, witted, unlettered, and irrational, that the price and Archbishops Romero and Tutu. 3f salvation is checking your mind at the Pearly An ecumenical monthly edited by lay Cath- Gates. Yet, from Harvard to Berkeley, and among olics, we've been characterized by George Will as inquisitive people generally, there's an undeniable "splendid," by the University of Chicago's Martin renewal of interest in the questions traditional re- E. Marty as "lively," by the Los Angeles Times as ligion raises and seeks to answer. This fascination "influential," by Newsweek as "thoughtful and is largely the result of the failure of secular sub- often cheeky," by Utne Reader as "surprisingly stitutes for religion (such as positivism, rational- original," by Library Journal as "brilliant," and ism, hedonism, consumerism, technological utopi- by Christopher Derrick, England's foremost Cath- anism, Freudianism, and Marxism) to give abid- olic apologist, as "by far the best Catholic maga- ingly satisfying answers to the truly significant zine in the English-speaking world." puzzles in life: evil, goodness, suffering, love, We publish Protestants, Catholics, Anglicans, death, and the meaning of it all. Eastern Orthodox, Jews, and an occasional non- Contrary to stereotypes, this religious renais- believer. Writers who've appeared in our pages in- sance does not imply a retreat from working for clude such diversely penetrating intellects as Rob- peace, justice, and human dignity; nor does it sig- ert Bellah, Christopher Lasch, Jean Bethke Elsh- nify a hostility to science, only an appreciation of tain, Daniel Bell, Robert Coles, Irving Howe, the limits of science and technology.
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