Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
With Cardinal Sarah, the Liturgy Is in Good Hands
Ever since I first read the Letters of Saint Ignatius of Antioch in the 1950s, one passage…
Living Communally in God’s Good Creation
I may be somewhat out of step with my fellow Reformed Christians in acknowledging a certain affinity…
Retrieval for the Sake of Renewal
Several years ago Mark Noll wrote an article titled “So You’re A Baptist—,” in which he asked:…
Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine!
Doctors in the United States cannot be forced to perform abortions or assist suicides. But that may…
The Fifty-Day Party
If you can find it in your attic, open your old, pre–Vatican II missal, and look at…
Weaving Chapter 13 Back into Romans
Christians typically read Romans 13 as a stand-alone passage. And it reads pretty well that way—a whole…
Don’t Celebrate Trump’s Religious Liberty Executive Order
Last week, in a Rose Garden ceremony, President Trump released a much-anticipated executive order on religious liberty.…
No Apology for Nostalgia
Is there any dirtier word than “nostalgia”? The problems with a politics of nostalgia are widely recognized.…
Ratzinger Rising
When Joseph Ratzinger resigned as Pope Benedict XVI, some of his opponents predicted, unkindly, that his abdication…
Jesus Is Not a Zombie
It’s a cliché of irreverent internet humor: atheists celebrating the Easter season by wishing their Christian countrymen…
The Land of Athanasius and its Lessons
The visit of Pope Francis to Egypt last week (April 28-29) was an act of personal courage,…
A Life of Being-in-the-World
The profession of philosophy lost one of its most distinguished members with the death of Hubert Dreyfus…
Fosdick’s Reformation
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969), a major icon of American Protestant liberalism, was a phenomenon. At the age…
Letters
Forgiveness I was especially pleased to find Bishop Robert Barron’s article (“Forgiving Dylann Roof”) in the March…
Empson in the East
The Face of the Buddhaby william empsonedited by rupert arrowsmithoxford, 208 pages, $49.95 William Empson (1906–1984) was…
