Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Axe of Advent
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” John the Baptist commands in a traditional Advent…
What Makes a Great Parish?
Great Catholic Parishes: How Four Essential Practices Make Them Thrive by william e. simon, jr. ave maria…
Briefly Noted
Exodus by thomas joseph white, o.p. brazos, 336 pages, $32.99 In days past, to study Scripture was…
Man, Lion, Calf, and Eagle
The Fourfold Gospel: A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesus by francis watson baker…
A Gentle Orthodoxy
Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present Day by andrew louth intervarsity, 383 pages, $28…
Mustard Seeds
The first chapter of Genesis is a grand liturgy of creation. The second chapter describes with existential…
Healing the Dying
At our annual reunions, my brother and sisters and I often joked that we flew home every…
The Protest
It wasn’t a perfect evening for a demonstration. The night was cold and damp. On the rain-slick…
Leaving the Party
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Volume IV:Party, Parliament, and the Dividing of the Whigs, 1780–1794…
Down and Out at Del Mar
The most dismaying thing I have read in this year of crummy happenings was a one-page vignette…
Gnostic Liberalism
The idea that human beings are non-bodily persons inhabiting non-personal bodies never quite goes away. Although the…
Last Stab at Goodness
I’ll tell you how to be the perfect man: / You do a perfect imitation / Of…
On My Late Grandmother Still Receiving Mail
And still the letters came. / Her neatly printed name / Was clear on every one. ...
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…
