Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Doctrix Teresa: A Churchly Theologian
This year marks the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, best known to…
Pope v. Paganism
The pagan temptation,” as the philosopher Thomas Molnar once described it, is hardly new—the Church has been…
Sex and Danger at UVA
This past November, Rolling Stone magazine published an article that told the story of a gang rape…
Traditio Deformis
The long history of defective Christian scriptural exegesis occasioned by problematic translations is a luxuriant one, and…
Lessons in Statecraft
When the Catholic Church celebrated the canonizations of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII on…
Solzhenitsyn’s Red Wheel
n It is not uncommon for readers of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s final novel, The Red Wheel, to draw…
Success Is Not Dignity
Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam is worried about America. He should be. As Charles Murray put it in…
Letters—May 2015
Marriage “The Two Shall Become One Flesh: Reclaiming Marriage” (March) is a clear articulation of the importance…
Annuncio
Into utter silence came the word, / not even the rustle of a mouse, nor bird /…
A Student’s Memoir
Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education by morris dickstein norton, 320 pages, $27.95 For nearly…
The Great Interpreter
The single most important event of constitutional interpretation in American history was the Civil War. The war…
Hartford: A Reminiscence
This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the 1975 “Hartford Appeal for Theological Affirmation.” Some of us who…
Rethinking Theology and Matter with Ibn Gabirol
Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021–1058) was the first Jewish philosopher in Spain, but medieval Christians knew him only…
“Wolf Hall” and Upmarket Anti-Catholicism
Wolf Hall, the BBC adaptation of Hillary Mantel’s novel about early Tudor England, began airing on PBS’s…
The Sweet Torture of Sunday Morning
On Easter Sunday afternoon, the Reverend Gardner Calvin Taylor, age ninety-six, slipped away from this world to…
