Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Wishing for God’s Plan: Mary’s fiat in Luke 1:38
In the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hangs van Eyck’s The Annunciation, where a rainbow-winged…
God Become Baby
The Gospels obviously tell the life story of a human being. Jesus was born. He lived in…
Neoconservative Catholicism in America
A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics by todd scribner cua, 155 pages,…
There Are Books in the House
For Gerd Stern The row of books is talking like a ghostin mildewy damp voices. Look at…
Habetis Papam
Far be it from me—not being a Roman Catholic—to tell Catholics what they should think of their…
Faith-Based Resistance
Last June, I was in Ukraine advising civil society groups that are seeking to ensure that the…
A Jubilee Year of Mercy
Pope Francis has announced a jubilee Year of Mercy, starting December 8. He is hardly the first…
Recovering Creativity
According to Gallup, less than one-third of the U.S. population describes itself as socially liberal. Yet in…
Living with a Mind
I was brought up in a culture that made no special place for the “intellectual” as a…
Two Theories of Immigration
Today there are twenty million refugees who have crossed international borders to escape violence and abject poverty.…
The Christmas Preface
There, in the hay’s warmth and the steaming sty,The Word born to the frailty of fleshCracks our…
The Crisis of Our Time
In this issue, David Hart commends Pope Francis as a critic of global capitalism. I’m less enthusiastic.…
Reckoning with Modernity
In the late summer of 1977, I made my way to New Haven, Connecticut, not yet twenty-two…
Raw Tales
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by jacob and wilhelm grimm translated and…
Why Tolerate Religion?
Why Tolerate Religion? by Brian Leiter princeton university press, 216 pages, $45.00 Brian Leiter’s Why Tolerate Religion? is…
