Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Harvest of Witnesses
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is a crafty and deceitful king, condemned by Zeus to roll a huge…
Pope Francis’s Reset Button
The past two years have seen endless conflict over Pope Francis’s 2016 post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris laetitia.…
An Exercise in Thoughtless “Theology”
In July, Antonio Spadaro, S.J., editor of La Civiltà Cattolica, and Marcelo Figueroa, a Presbyterian pastor and editor…
The Godless Nursery School
Hell hath no fury like secular parents in one of America’s most expensive zip codes when they…
“You Have to Decide.”
In writing Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II, one of my secondary…
The Principled Ambivalence of Pope Francis
Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium is rightly considered the inaugural address of his pontificate. In it,…
Our Misguided War on Legalism
I opened my sophomore Medieval Humanities class this year by reading the Franciscan rule to my students…
Reformation “What Might Have Beens”
The Reformers didn’t intend to split the Western church or to create new churches. Every one of…
A Rose in Bloom: Luther’s Reformation at 500
In many ways, Lutherans occupy an unusual space in world Christendom—too “Catholic” for their Baptist friends and…
Everything Is Outside the Text
Rémi Brague famously described Europe as having an “eccentric identity.” He meant that Europe’s culture is one…
Talking to Heraclitus
“Life has the name of life but in reality it is death,” writes Heraclitus. No Bronx boy,…
The Untrue Artist
I’ve put untapped potential on a shelf / much like a book one someday wants to read.…
Luther at 500
It all did start with the ninety-five theses, in a sense. Luther probably did not actually nail…
The Myth of Scientific Objectivity
My friends who work in scientific fields were aghast when they saw that the organizers of a…
Briefly Noted
John Witherspoon’s American Revolution: Enlightenment and Religion from the Creation of Britain to the Founding of the…
