Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
An Open Mind?
Examining the complex functioning of a human brain as it lay exposed on an operating table can…
Free University Orthodoxy
During the debate over “biblical inerrancy” that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s,…
What Really Happened at Synod 2015
The following is a preview from our January issue: When the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the…
A Dialogue Upon the Island
On the strand, Ariel and Caliban: the former seated atop a milk-white boulder with knees drawn up…
The Power of Love
When I go walking on the street / My Guardian Angel walks behind. / I hear the…
Dissenter for the Absolute
No American philosophy has as yet been produced,” complained Charles Sanders Peirce in 1866. “Since our country…
Properly Basic
Knowledge and Christian Belief by alvin plantinga eerdmans, 141 pages, $16 D oes God exist? Is it…
A Crisis of Conservative Catholicism
Let’s begin with a story. It’s one I’ve heard many times; it’s one I’ve told more than…
Deliver Us From Innocence
God preserve us from all innocence,” Querry tells Mother Agnes in Graham Greene’s 1960 novel A Burnt-Out…
God’s Strangeness
Skimming through a stack of books recently, I found myself reading a testimonial of sorts from James…
Ministries of Life
If you ride New York City’s subways, you will see public service advertisements blazoned above you. Some…
Open the Way
Open the Way for God? Take to the road, / Calvary Hill. It is no easy path.…
Scout’s Grown Up
Go Set a Watchman by harper lee harpercollins, 288 pages, $27.99 It might be the greatest American…
The Holy Family
Of the Passover festival in Jerusalem, St. Luke concisely reports, “When the festival was ended, Jesus stayed…
On the Incarnation
The following is a homily that was given at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.:…
