Archive


More than thirty years of First Things articles at your fingertips.

Articles

Filter

Articles

Reasonable Science, Reasonable Faith

Christoph Cardinal Schönborn

To the second edition of his Principia Mathematica , published in 1713, Isaac Newton appended what he called a scholium generale . A principal concern of Newton’s had been...

The Designs of Science

Christoph Cardinal Schönborn

In July 2005 the New York Times published my short essay “Finding Design in Nature.” The reaction has been overwhelming, and not overwhelmingly positive. In the October issue of...

The Hope of Heaven, The Hope of Earth

Christoph Cardinal Schönborn

Many people today are worried about a certain politicization of the churches, or of some groups in the churches. The following, very fragmentary reflections are an attempt to make...