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No Liberal Home
Jesus promises his followers that they will be hated in this world. “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you...
Reckoning with Modernity
In the late summer of 1977, I made my way to New Haven, Connecticut, not yet twenty-two years old and afire to study theology at Yale Divinity School. At...
The Theologian’s Ecclesial Vocation
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Renewing Dogmatic Theology
Catholics in the last fifty years or so have almost completely ceased to do dogmatic theology. Save for a handful of admirable holdouts, we have practically given up the...
Reading the Gospels with Benedict XVI
A few days after Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, a distinguished Lutheran theologian happened to meet up with a Catholic colleague of long acquaintance. “You should be very...
Treasures in Heaven
Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven” (Mark 10:21). How shall we take these words of Jesus? Most readers...
Who Really Cares About Christian Unity?
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