Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Thomas Joseph White Teaches Catholicism
First Things will host Fr. Thomas Joseph White for a reception and discussion of The Light of…
The Evangelical Future Is Mestizo
New data released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Pew Research Center have given…
Disciples Are Made in the Home
Demography, Culture, and the Decline of America’s Christian Denominations by george hawleylexington books, 238 pages, $95.00 It’s no…
The Persecution of Orthodoxy
If one considers the transformation of Plato’s Academy, champion of eternal truth, into a center of radical…
Evaluating the World’s Religions
The founders of the great, durable religions of the world were not philosophers. The intuitions that our…
The Filial Correction Online
A group of more than sixty Catholic theologians and clergy, including some well-known traditionalist writers and scholars,…
Academic Dishonesty Policy
Don’t borrow another’s thoughtwithout citation. Don’t filchanother writer’s diction,assuming I’m deaf to styleand tone—elements I teach.Remember, if…
Waugh on the Merits
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was…
The Iron Law of Shortsightedness
Climate activists argue that the effects of climate change are too immense to be remedied by individual…
Reading is Believing
I’ve been tracking youth reading habits and test scores for a long time, but I’ve never asked…
The Splendor of Truth in 2017
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just…
Briefly Noted
Luther and His Progeny: 500 Years of Protestantism and Its Consequences for Church, State, and Society edited…
Autumn Road
I follow the clean-edged macadam northTo catch the train. The maples lining bothSides hang with leaves turned…
A Less Corrupt Term
In these unusually turbulent times for the presidency and Congress, the Supreme Court’s latest term stands out…
The Transmigration of Theological Nonsense
During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the…