Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
An All-Too-Moveable Feast
We American Catholics are now in the post-Easter Season of the Bollixed Holy Days. One of them—occurring…
Cheap Joy
On Holy Wednesday this year, I attended a local Catholic book club meeting on The Book of…
The Cosmic Gamemaker
Integrating God+Love+Lawby luis tellezwitherspoon, 80 pages, $12 In Integrating God+Love+Law, Luis Tellez urges readers, especially his target…
Making a Diverse College of Cardinals Work
With the exception of the two consistories held by Pope John XXIII in 1958 and 1959, every…
More on the College of the Holy Cross
Charlotte Allen and George Weigel have each written sharply on the controversy at the College of the…
Soloveitchik the Zionist
Rabbi, if only I knew our suffering was paving the way for the Messiah,” cried a Jewish…
Dissenters from Disenchantment
Monterey Peninsula College is a two-year school in California. Students in the Great Books Program there don’t…
The Theology of Foreign Policy
On matters of foreign policy, Americans are divided into two hidden camps. Not Republicans versus Democrats, nor…
Oscar Romero, Martyr and Saint
The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nationsby oscar romeroplough, 140 pages, $8…
David as Politician
The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuelby moshe halbertal and stephen holmesprinceton, 232…
Briefly Noted
Leonardo da Vinciby walter isaacsonsimon and schuster, 624 pages, $35 Walter Isaacson, best known for biographies of…
Evangelical Gnosticism
I teach in a great books program at an Evangelical university. Almost all students in the program are…
Heal Our Wounds
Six months after he was elected to the Chair of Peter, Pope Francis made one of the…
Letters—May 2018
Asserted, Not Argued Robert Benne’s critique of Mitri Raheb’s lecture on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (“Political Supersessionism,” March)…
America and Liberalism
The American experiment.” I cringed whenever Richard John Neuhaus used that formulation. We live in a country,…
