Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Tayloring Christianity
Why was it once virtually impossible not to believe in God, while today many of us find…
Ornament
He said he had no use for ‘holy’ things, / The ornaments of Christ’s nativity: / “You…
Sex and the Religion of Me
Why has the equivalence of same-sex and opposite-sex relations suddenly become a moral and social absolute? That…
Letters—December 2014
Ukraine John P. Burgess’s article “Christian Witness in Ukraine” (October) is flawed in several significant ways. First,…
New-Time Religion
The West, we are told, has entered the secular age. Religious faith is irreversibly shriveling, opening space…
Lessons From Dietrich von Hildebrand
Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977) was a German Catholic philosopher, part of a circle of thinkers that first…
Churches & Obama’s Executive Amnesty
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler has critiqued President Obama’s executive amnesty for millions of illegal…
Advent of Unity
John famously begins his Gospel with a piece of theology: “In the beginning was the Word, and…
Evangelical Liturgy, High and Low
Evangelical versus Liturgical?: Defying a Dichotomyby melanie rosseerdmans, 165 pages, $17 Ever since the 1994 publication of…
Trinity As Communio
In the preparatory period before Vatican II, when St. John XXIII asked all the bishops of the…
A Biblical Vision of Marriage
Too often, we Evangelical Protestants have harmed our public witness and failed in fidelity by proclaiming the…
Pastors Don’t Need to Enter Politics—They’re Already In It
A friend is encouraging pastors to run for political office. Like everyone, he’s worried about America’s future,…
The Way God Conducts Us
At an academic conference not too long ago, I delivered a paper on St. Paul’s view of…
Exploded into Being by Divine Love
I’ve long been fascinated by cosmology, although my deficiencies as a mathematician preclude my really following the…
Who Has the Authority to Write Theology?
We live in an age of unprecedented theological production. At no point in church history have so…
