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An Avant-garde Theological Generation: The Nouvelle Théologie and the French Crisis of Modernityby jon kirwanoxford, 336 pages, $94 Jon Kirwan presents the Nouvelle Théologie as a movement with three...

The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuelby moshe halbertal and stephen holmesprinceton, 232 pages, $27.95 Jews and Christians ought to be proud of having a...

I offer a frigid smile any time people go into nostalgic raptures about the benefits of memorizing poetry. This is because, back in the day when adults insisted that...

Our English word “hypocrite” comes from the Greek for a stage-actor, hupokrisis. Does it follow that acting is the epitome of hypocrisy and can have no standing in a...

It was a bad sign when several jolly-looking priests got into a car and pulled out of the car park on the Saturday before Christmas. But I ignored the...

Different kinds of Christians do Christmas in their different ways, and fights naturally break out among opposing predilection groups. There is the group who cannot bear to see Christmas...

Once, as an impecunious PhD student, I decided I had to forgo my weekly Hill Street Blues in the interests of eating or paying rent to my brother. I...

The main reason for disliking the Harry Potter books is obviously their membership in the Enid Blyton genre. A further reason I could not make it past the first dozen...

Rémi Brague famously described Europe as having an “eccentric identity.” He meant that Europe’s culture is one whose resources come from elsewhere, so that rather than looking inward for...

Is there such a thing as Sikh theology? Are there Muslim theologians? Do members of the Buddhist Sangha attempt to correlate what they know by the light of faith...

The founders of the great, durable religions of the world were not philosophers. The intuitions that our deeds will be judged when time has run its course, or that...

The great oracle of English conservatism, Charles Moore, once pronounced Slumdog Millionaire the Islamic breakthrough movie, in the same way Four Weddings and a Funeral was the breakthrough movie...

All good Catholics know that nominalism is a Bad Thing. Nominalism is the substitution of “names” for universal “natures” as a tool for explaining the world. We need to...

In postwar Britain, the Butler Education Act (1944) required all schools to teach religious education and to start the day with an assembly that included worship. The Butler Education...

Americans almost invariably refer to the British Isles as “England.” They refer to Scottish writers, including those whose names begin with Mac, as “English.” Their urge to reduce Wales,...