Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
St. Paul and Consumer Society
According to many contemporary scholars, the apostle Paul didn’t object to “Judaizers” because they taught that salvation…
Trashing Luther
Theological hobbyists of a hyper-Catholic sort continue to misconstrue Luther’s “errors.” Oh, I hardly think he was…
A Guide Through the Thicket
Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character, and Grace by daniel a. westberg ivp academic, 281…
Theology Worth Smuggling
When Harvey Cox was a student minister in Berlin in 1962, one year after the erection of…
The Myth of America’s Religious Founding
Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding by Steven K. Green Oxford, 312 pages,…
A Benign Reading of a Confusing Paragraph
When I was asked to sign the Appeal critiquing Paragraph 137, I initially agreed with the reading of…
Learned Ignorance
On Wednesday evening, a capacity crowd assembled at the Calvary Chapel on the campus of Biola University…
An Appeal
An Instrumentum laboris (working paper) was prepared for the XIV Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops…
Did Muhammad Perform Miracles?
On Thursday, August 27, 2015, the first part of Iran’s most expensive movie trilogy, “Muhammad, the Messenger…
Imperfect Goodbyes and the Hope of Resurrection
I was on the phone with my mother the moment when my grandmother died. The two of…
Apostate
Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion by Phil Zuckerman Oxford, 240 pages, $21.95 Atheism and religious…
Life is a Cabaret, Old Chum
Decadence: A process, condition, or period of deterioration or decline, as in morals or art; decay. The…
The Deeper Issue at the Synod
Looking back on the controversy that preceded Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae, I get the…
Planning for Beauty
Discussions of liturgical music in many Catholic parishes have become needlessly polemical. The one thing we all…
Among the Rootless
In a speech delivered in October 2014, David Brooks offered a fanciful contrast devised by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik…
