Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Briefly Noted
Love Is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive prepared by the archdiocese of philadelphia and the pontifical…
Our Carrie Nation
The spectacle made me think of Prohibition, the last time rich white progressives imposed their moral views…
Spoonspell
From the dank deeps under dampened compost, to my amazement, there now emerges almost unspoiled…
Against Edenism
The future will look very different from the past. The Garden of Paradise will culminate in the…
The Three Fausts
We live in an age of science and technology. To say this means more than acknowledging the…
Romans 8:19–22
In a moment, another Auseinandersetzung with the indefatigable Edward Feser; but first a small prolepsis: A reader…
The Future of Democratic Capitalism
In the eighteenth century, a host of thinkers began to use the compound term “political economy” to…
Letters
Barth’s Legacy I am grateful to Phillip Cary for his admirable review of my book Reading Barth…
Freedom within the Disciplines
Faculty often quarrel over curricula. That’s as it should be. A curriculum, especially its core courses required…
Ireland: A Country Without a Conscience?
Ireland’s recent decision to approve same-sex marriage, by popular referendum, has left the country’s Catholic reputation in…
The Neglected God
Some years ago Nils A. Dahl wrote that God may be the “neglected factor in New Testament…
Putin, Stalin, and the Church
On Orthodox Easter, just weeks before Russia’s seventieth Victory Day celebration, Russian Patriarch Kirill addressed scores of…
Of Magazines and Communities
On March 7, 2015, Randy Boyagoda of Ryerson College, R. R. Reno of First Things, and Raymond…
Is Vice More Interesting than Virtue?
Since at least the age of Milton, whose Satan in Paradise Lost allegedly outmatches the other characters in…
Maury’s Silent Majority
Maury’s struggling to stay in character. Normally he’s the picture of paternal stability: amused but not belittling,…
