Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters—November 2014
Catholic Marriage The good points about marital preparation that Robert Spaemann makes in “Divorce and Remarriage” (August/September)…
2014 Supreme Court Roundup
The biggest cases decided by the Supreme Court in the term that ended this past July concerned,…
Fear of Children
In a scene cut from The Exorcist’s 1973 theatrical version, Jason Miller’s Fr. Damien Karras sits with…
Two Days on a Holy Mountain
A few months ago, my wife noticed that (to borrow from Wordsworth) the world was too much…
Ehrman Errant
Can We Still Believe the Bible?:An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions By Craig L. Blomberg Brazos Press,…
Culture War, Spiritual War
So now we’re debating whether or not two men or two women can get married. How, over…
Medieval Golden Age, Modern Barbarism
Earlier this year, as conflict raged in northern Syria, two professors, one Lebanese and the other American,…
Retirement Home Christianity
When, back in the mid-1980s, I told a retired Calvin College colleague that I was moving to…
The Myth of the Apophatic Areopagite
When most theologians hear the phrase “absolutely ineffable,” they nod approvingly and reach for their Dionysius. I…
Notre Dame Honors Russia’s New Martyrs
It’s sometimes hard to tell, this time of year, but there’s more going on at Notre Dame…
The Dominican Option
There’s been a long conversation in America about the degree to which Catholic Christianity is compatible with…
Mary on the Prairie
The city of Bismarck was founded in 1872 in what was then the Dakota Territory, at a…
Muslim Scholars vs. ISIS
On Wednesday, September 24, 2014, “More than 120 Muslim scholars from around the world joined an open…
Taking the Long Way
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead…
Witch Morals
Upon its release fifteen years ago, the distributors of The Blair Witch Project realized they had a…
