Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Phantom’s Visit (C.B.)
I could tell at once that he was a ghost. There was a certain translucency about him:…
Pears Not Pixels
Bleeding Edge by thomas pynchon penguin, 477 pages, $28.95 Don’t be fooled by the slapstick comedy and…
Alien Development
Jacob Arminius: Theologian of Graceby keith d. stanglin and thomas h. mccalloxford, 258 pages, $27.99 Ultimately, as…
Francis and the Market
Francis and the Market In Evangelii Gaudium, the apostolic exhortation released just before Thanksgiving, Pope Francis focuses…
City, Empire, Church
Metamorphoses of the City: On the Western Dynamicby pierre manentharvard, 384 pages, $39.95 Today little attention is…
Dogmatic Philosophy
Religion Without Godby ronald dworkinharvard, 192 pages, $17.95 When he died last February, Ronald Dworkin had been…
Bloodless Moralism
Dame Rebecca West had a theory that the history of civilization since Christ could be divided into…
Cosmology
They told us that we lost our lofty placewhen Galileo shattered Ptolemy’sconcentric spheres, hurled Earth into the…
Theological Stakes of Sexual Difference
One of the most neglected recent books on sexual difference is also one of the most important.…
Lutheran Evangelicals
Why is Calvinism so influential among American Evangelicals while Lutheranism is not? We might describe the statistically…
Fatherless Churches
Almost fifty years ago, when the Catholic Church unveiled its new rite of Mass in the Sistine…
New Year’s Habits
New Year’s Resolutions tend to focus on new skills and habits to acquire. This is the year…
Little Sisters in the Political Madhouse
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has blocked the administration’s mandate that the Little Sisters of the Poor…
The Poorest of the Poor
Pope Francis has ignited a useful and necessary conversation about our responsibilities to the poorest of the…
Karl Barth’s Finite God
The concept of infinity has a long pedigree in philosophy. Taken on its own terms, it surely…
