Robert Louis Wilken is a distinguished historian of early Christianity and professor emeritus of the history of Christianity at the University of Virginia. A widely respected scholar of patristics and the early church, he contributed essays and reviews to The Weekly Standard on topics related to religion and church history.
Cicero The Life And Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt Random House, 368 pp., $25.95 FOR CENTURIES the works of Cicero were models of Latin style, and even after Latin no longer served as Europe's literary language, Cicero's rotund and balanced phrases shaped the speeches and…
The Monks of Tibhirine Faith, Love and Terror in Algeria by John W. Kiser St. Martin's, 335 pp., $25.95 TIBHIRINE is a village in the Atlas Mountains some forty miles southwest of Algiers. In 1938 a Trappist monastery was founded there by a small group of French monks from the Abbey of Aiguebelle.…
In 1896, Charles Monroe Sheldon published a wildly popular book on Jesus entitled In His Steps. In the buoyant optimism of the Gilded Age, Sheldon's Jesus had the look and feel of a confident and aspiring businessman -- a man of eminent practicality and common sense, a trustworthy guide to the…