Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
School Shootings and the Book of Job
Last Thursday morning, I was teaching a freshman honors seminar in Newberg, Oregon. We were discussing Genesis…
The Moral Universe of Hannibal
A woman lovingly plucks a dead pheasant. A man places a human arm on a cutting board…
We’ve Been Warned
After a papal visit that provided a welcome rest from the cynicism of our hyper-political culture, coverage…
The Mystery of Eternal Love
One of the most common charges leveled against Christians in the early church was that they were…
Through African Eyes
As an African and an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana teaching at a seminary…
Evangelicals Won’t Cave
Could the next Billy Graham be a married lesbian? In the year 2045, will Focus on the…
Saint Origen
A month or so ago I found myself hovering at the edges of a long, rambling, repetitive intra-Orthodox…
American Heraclitus
The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915–1964 by zachary leader knopf, 832 pages, $40…
The Consolation of Philology
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by james turner princeton, 576 pages, $35 She appeared…
False Freedom
The majority opinion in Obergefell, written by Justice Kennedy, opens with a grand claim about the nature…
Newman for Protestants
I discovered John Henry Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua on a rainy morning in Cambridge in 1994. I…
Epithalamion
We mark the days that tell us who we are, staccato days that give our lives their…
The Wreckage of Obergefell
Every generation, it seems, has its paradigm-defining Supreme Court case: a decision (or series of decisions) that…
Theology’s Umpire
Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures by paul griffiths baylor, 408 pages, $69.95 T here is…
Holy Warriors
In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire by robert g. hoyland…
