Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Last Stab at Goodness
I’ll tell you how to be the perfect man:You do a perfect imitationOf someone who would hesitateTo…
On My Late Grandmother Still Receiving Mail
And still the letters came.Her neatly printed nameWas clear on every one.A few proclaimed she’d wonA one-time…
Vulgar Deconstruction
Back in the 1970s, when the humanities still set the intellectual tone for the college campus, it…
The Snowstorms that Remain
I’m waiting like a child on Christmas Eve,waiting for dawn to show me that the snowis finally…
A (Liturgical) New Year’s Resolution
If the civil new year is an occasion to resolve to Do Better in the future, the…
Recalibrating the Culture War in 2016
We thought that the culture war was behind us and that we were entering a Brave New…
Samicles
Five years ago, InterVarsity Press launched the Reformation Commentary on Scripture, a projected twenty-eight-volume series of exegesis…
Wanting to Love the Pope
Back in the 1980s, the National Catholic Reporter, always a force for Church unity, ran a cartoon…
On our Need for the Real Thomas More
Next month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the film A Man for All Seasons. And if it’s…
Calvinist Environmentalism?
Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise American Environmentalismby Mark StollOxford University Press, 416 pages, $39.95…
Losing Control of History
If there is one concept that’s taken a massive hit from Donald Trump’s election, it is the…
The Ecumenical Gospel
For many Evangelical Protestants, the gospel is justification by grace alone through faith alone. It’s the good…
Catholicism Embodied: “The Pivotal Players”
Looking for some uplift after this tawdry election cycle? Some inspiration for tackling what lies ahead? A…
No Mystical Body on the Religious Right
Russell Moore’s 2016 Erasmus lecture, “Can the Religious Right be Saved?,” provided a wide-ranging indictment of the…
Gnostic Longings
Some years ago, an older friend turned fifty and his body suddenly fell apart. He had several…
