Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

JD Vance States the Obvious About Ordo Amoris

James Orr

We are living, it scarcely needs saying, in unpredictable times. But no one could have imagined that…

Thinking Twice About Re-Enchantment

Peter J. Leithart

Since the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution, the story goes, we’ve lived more and more in a…

The Bible Throughout the Ages

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Bruce Gordon joins in…

Redemption Before Christ

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Gerald R. McDermott joins…

The Theology of Music

Peter J. Leithart

Élisabeth-Paule Labat (1897–1975) was an accomplished pianist and composer when she entered the abbey of Saint-Michel de…

No Method but Christ

Hans Boersma

When I try to explain to people why we need to recover patristic interpretation, the biggest obstacle…

Orthodoxy at War

John P. Burgess

St. Sophia Cathedral is quiet and almost empty when I step inside on a wintry morning. Saints…

What to Remember

Ephraim Radner

I had thought of calling this piece “Against Memory.” Hyperbolic, perhaps, but I had my reasons. I’ve started…

Dawkins’s Gender Dilemma

Carl R. Trueman

On December 30, Richard Dawkins resigned from the honorary board of the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF)…

Stacked Decks, “Conversation in the Spirit,” and the Catholic Future

George Weigel

Various cultures—English, Turkish, Chinese—claim to have invented the maxim, “The fish rots from the head down” (a…

Seeing Sacred Scripture

Germán Saucedo

Is there a visual language to Sacred Scripture? Some passages of the Bible have become inextricably entwined…

Reparations Should Not Trump Communion

Casey Chalk

Throughout Christian history, periods of social crisis have typically provoked an intensification of the faithful’s belief and…

What God Is This?

Carl R. Trueman

My wife and I think Rome is the greatest city on earth; we try to go every…

How the Oxford Movement Saved Christmas

Joshua Fagan

A world filled with great social and technological change, religious uncertainty, and a desire for ritual and…

On Kneeling: A Response to Cardinal Cupich

Leah Libresco

Putting “O Holy Night” on the program at Christmas Masses in Chicago this year may prove a…