Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Christian Ownership Maximalism

Timothy Reichert

Christendom is gone. So, too, is much of the Western civilization that was built atop it. Christians…

The First Apostle and the Speech of Creation

Hans Boersma

Yesterday, November 30, was the Feast of St. Andrew, Jesus’s first apostle. Why did Jesus call on…

Kings, Behold and Wail

Ephraim Radner

I was a full-time parish priest at a time when we still visited people in their homes.…

The Mediatrix Question

Thomas G. Guarino

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith recently released a document on the Blessed Mother entitled…

Walker Percy’s Pilgrimage

Algis Valiunas

People can get used to most anything. Even the abyss may be rendered tolerable—or, for that matter,…

How to Talk About God (ft. Hans Boersma)

R. R. Reno

In this episode, Hans Boersma joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…

Self-Help from the Ancients (ft. Michael Fontaine)

Mark Bauerlein

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Michael Fontaine joins…

Agonistic End Times

R. R. Reno

In Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot notes, “The end is where we start from.” Our sense of…

The Grammar of Reverence

Adam Eilath

Something is stirring in the West. After decades of polite secular confidence, people are talking about God…

Fossilized Faith

Aaron M. Renn

Christian Smith, a sociologist at Notre Dame, has a knack for turning academic research ­into books that…

Strange Gods

Steven Searcy

We promised Joshua that we would serve the god who brought us to this land. Of course...

Canterbury Fails

Damian Thompson

When it was announced in October that the next archbishop of Canterbury would be a woman with…

Briefly Noted

The Book of Mormon simultaneously affirms the Bible and challenges its uniqueness, with the stated purpose to…

Wistful Agnostics and True Believers

Bethel McGrew

With the death of the New Atheist industrial complex, a new variety of religion-friendly intellectual discourse has…

Western Civilization and Augustine (ft. Chad Pecknold)

Mark Bauerlein

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Chad Pecknold joins…