Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Rumors of Glory: Jane Kramer and the Feast of St. Martin Elginbrod - Books & Culture Magazine

re: Alan Jacobs writes, "Jane Kramer is a highly distinguished journalist, whose writings about Europe have enlivened the pages of America's most distinguished periodicals for many years now. But her recent essay on Pope Benedict in The New Yorker is not a highlight of her career. Few Christians who pay attention to the coverage of religion in the media will find this surprising: the essay is in several ways, most of them discouraging, representative of much current writing about religion in general and Christianity in particular. But it might be worthwhile to explore just why Kramer's essay is so typical..."

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