Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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—May 2017
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…
The Moral Turn
For some conservatives, bracing themselves on the night of the election, the evening offered nothing less than…
Stardust to Stardust
I’m at the corner of Broadway and West 73rd Street trying to decide whether the security guard…
Restraining Populism
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wrote Donald Trump a public letter the day after his election. “Germany and…
The Tragedy of the Republic
We French have for some years been overcome by a furor for republicanism and for citizenship. There…
Return of the Strong Gods
A young writer in Australia recently sent me an essay that ended with an arresting sentence: “I…
