Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Return to Form
( English Version | German Version ) The times in which a new form is born are…
Polite Persecution
No American has suffered the fate of Helen Berhane, the Eritrean gospel singer whose evangelizing earned her…
From a Vanished Library
The library in question is not the Great Library of Alexandria, but it is every bit as…
The Touchstone Effect
Everyone should have a copybook of maxims. So I tell my students at the start of freshman…
Briefly Noted
The Contemplative Hunger by father donald haggerty ignatius, 259 pages, $17.95 Fr. Donald Haggerty’s first book, Contemplative…
Going Benedict, Orthodox Jewish Style
In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, characters “go Galt” by disappearing into a valley, Galt’s Gulch, when society…
Waugh’s Helena, Father General, and the Reality of Revelation
Evelyn Waugh’s slim and critically unappreciated novel, Helena, was something of a literary experiment for a modern…
God’s Image, Man’s Crimes
Yesterday I discussed parts of Shane Claiborne’s Biblical arguments in Executing Grace in favor of abolishing the…
Death Penalties and the Divine
In Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us, Shane Claiborne argues…
Pope Francis’s Achilles Heel
In a recent interview with the German paper Die Zeit, Pope Francis declared, “I am a sinner…
Pope Francis as Historian
During a friendly meeting on January 19 with an ecumenical delegation from Finland, Pope Francis affirmed his…
Harmony and the Scriptures: Lenten Reflections on Harnoncourt and Bach
“Do you know this performance of the St. John Passion conducted by Karl Richter?” a friend wrote.…
On “Owning” the Church
The question of “who owns the Church” has had a stormy history in Catholic America, although the…
Ecclesiology in Space
Some time ago a guarantee was given: “That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will…
Can We Talk?
So much of the Bible, and thus so much of the Bible’s theology, takes place through conversations.…
