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Whatever Happened to Nuclear Weapons?—A Review Essay

Scott Waalkes is Professor of Political Science at Malone University. Introduction Whatever happened to nuclear weapons? Once a regular feature of popular culture and news coverage, they seem to have disappeared. News junkies born before the mid-1970s will easily recall controversies surrounding the novel On the Beach, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film Dr. Strangelove,…
July 15, 2015
Extended Review

Money: The Unauthorized Biography —An Extended Review

John Lunn is Professor of Economics at Hope College. The Extended Review is a new book review feature that on occasion will appear in future CSR issues. It will provide an extended review from a Christian perspective of a scholarly book intended for a wide audience. The thesis of Felix Martin’s book is that money…
July 15, 2015
Article

The Only Way to Win: The Enduring Problem of Nuclear Deterrence

In this essay Daniel R. Allen reviews nuclear deterrence, the most crucial theoretic construct for nuclear weapons policy. A wide range of positions exists with respect to belief in the deterrent utility of nuclear weapons. The positions of deterrence optimists rely entirely on a presumption that human rationality undercuts the motive for nuclear weapon use.…
July 15, 2015
Reviews

In Search of Moral Knowledge: Overcoming the Fact-Value Dichotomy

Reviewed by Dennis L. Sansom, Philosophy, Samford University R. Scott Smith primarily argues that the supposed fact-value split (that is, between scientific truths and religious-ethical truths) is philosophically unfounded because it rests on the mistaken notion that we do not have direct cognitive access to reality. Consequently, the many ethical theories and approaches that presume…
July 15, 2015
Reflection

Reflection: A Dream

For sixteen years Don W. King served as the Editor of the Christian Scholar’s Review, completing his service on May 1, 2015. In the last of three short reflections he relates a dream he had just before stepping down as editor. Mr. King is Professor of English at Montreat College. Last night I had a…
July 15, 2015
Reviews

Silence: A Christian History

Reviewed by Gerald L. Sittser, Theology, Whitworth University Academic historians rarely reach a wide audience. A few (Peter Brown comes to mind here) become widely known, but not many. Diarmaid MacCulloch belongs in that elite company. His previous books, such as Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, have won major awards, and his popular BBC-TV…
July 15, 2015
Introduction

Introduction to the Theme Issue: The Nuclear Age at 70

Richard Pointer is Professor of History and Fletcher Jones Foundation Chair in the Social Sciences at Westmont College, Michael Van Dyke is Professor of English at Cornerstone University, Scott Waalkes is Professor of Political Science at Malone University, and Mark Yuly is Professor of Physics and Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Houghton…
July 15, 2015
Reviews

Let Creation Rejoice: Biblical Hope and Ecological Crisis

Reviewed by Alice L. Laffey, Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross In the past 35 years this reviewer has read many books in the field of biblical studies and many books on the environment. There has been an occasional book that has combined biblical studies and the environmental crisis, but these usually have been…
July 15, 2015