Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Samson’s Spirituality
Samson is the most Spiritual man in the Old Testament, the most Pentecostal of Israel’s heroes. Given…
Pope Francis’s Dichotomies
The Roots of Pope Francis’s Social and Political Thought:From Argentina to the Vaticanthomas r. rourkerowman and littlefield,…
Watching George Pell
Cardinal George Pell, emeritus Archbishop of Sydney and now resident in Rome, is Australia’s most senior prelate.…
The Age of Concentration
Many regard Russia as backward, lagging behind the West. This is not so. Our shared civilization is…
Dress Up
For quite a few years now, academic philosophers and sociologists, as well as popular social commentators who…
Thanks for Everything, Pope Francis
When my wife, Elizabeth, and I were married a quarter century or so ago, she was a…
The Last Great Homilist
Ronald Knox:A Man for All Seasonsedited by francesca bugliani knoxpontifical institute of medieval studies, 416 pages, $65…
Twenty-First-Century Conservatism
There are times when one reads something that provides a moment of sudden illumination. I had that…
The Three Necessary Societies
Rerum Novarum (1891) begins with this sentence: “That the spirit of new things [revolutionary change], which has…
Figure It In
Time and the Word:Figural Reading of the Christian Scripturesby ephraim radnereerdmans, 326 pages, $50 Moderns are accustomed…
How to Look at a Tree
Across the road from my house, presiding over a patch of lawn between my parish church and…
Mr. and Mrs. Fearmonger
The Cold World They Made:The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetterby ron robinharvard, 365 pages, $35…
Singing Aquinas in L.A.
When I was a child in parochial school, we began each morning with daily Mass. My mother…
I Like It at Home
“All my brothers went West and took up land, but I hung on to New England and…
Babel and Brexit
Why did God disperse the men who built the Tower of Babel? The ancient rabbinic texts uncovered…
