Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual

Paul J. Griffiths

You’ve asked me how to become an intellectual. You’re young, it seems (only young people ask questions…

Two Kingdom Theology in the Trump Era

Lyman Stone

From October 2017 until October 2018, Protestants around the world, especially Lutherans, are commemorating the five hundredth…

Marriage in The Methodist Church

Paul T. Stallsworth

In 1987, the Taskforce of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality (TUMAS) was founded to be a…

Toward Incarnation

Peter J. Leithart

Typological reading of Scripture has been disfavored in modern Christianity. It should be restored to favor, not…

Who May Receive Communion?

Gerhard Cardinal Müller

This is the fifth in a series of reflections by Cardinal Müller on questions of present importance…

A Touching and Feeling Faith

Lauren Rae Konkol

Everything Happens for a Reason:And Other Lies I’ve Lovedby kate bowlerrandom house, 208 pages, $26 If the…

From the Heart of a Young Father

Charles J. Chaput

Bishops get a lot of unsolicited mail from strangers, some of it pleasant, some of it much…

Heresy at a Jesuit College

Charlotte Allen

On Easter Monday, Inside Higher Education, an online trade paper covering academia, published an article about a…

Rebuild Christchurch Basilica

Stephen Schmalhofer

In February 2011, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and damaging dozens of…

What Would Have Stopped Martin Luther

Michael D. Breidenbach

In the popular telling of Martin Luther’s story, nothing could have stopped the Protestant reformer from challenging…

An Ambiguous Exhortation

Dan Hitchens

Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation, fittingly published in April, is full of springtime hope. It speaks candidly to…

Patriarch Kirill and Mr. Putin

George Weigel

The annals of sycophancy are, alas, replete with examples of churchmen toadying to political power. Here in…

Why Does Religion Need Commandments?

Reuven Ziegler

What is the point of the myriad commandments governing every aspect of a Jew’s life? Why does…

A Tradition Unlike Any Other

Brandon McGinley

If you tune in to CBS at 2 p.m. on the second Sunday of April, you will…

Hell Yes

Peter J. Leithart

Last week, the Drudge Report cited an interview with Pope Francis in tabloid all-caps: POPE DECLARES NO…