Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
History’s Most Powerful Rabbi
On October 7, some eight hundred thousand people, about 10 percent of Israel’s population and roughly 13…
Love’s Scandal
God’s Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us: A Contemporary Doctrine of the Jews as the Chosen People by jerome…
These Fragments Have I Shored
Some years ago, when I was teaching in a respected department in a prestigious university in one…
T. F. Torrance and the Latin Heresy
Most noted for his work at the intersection of theology and science, for which he was feted…
Evangelical Retreat?
Growing up in a Southern Baptist church in the 1970s and ’80s, I heard quite a bit…
How to Limit Government
How to Limit Government n The United States is no more likely to become Europe than China…
Listening to Timkat
I follow her story only in part, like a man looking from a lit room at dark…
The Catholic Writer Today
I For years I’ve pondered a cultural and social paradox that diminishes the vitality and diversity of…
America’s Mainline
The idea that American Protestantism has a “mainline,” or ever did, was born in irony. The mainline…
Against Symbolic Killing
Against Symbolic Killing n We weren’t, President Obama emphasized, going to use force to achieve a strategic…
Polytechnic Utiliversity
University education delivers goods that are seen as commodities, as purchasable means to satisfy individual desires and…
How to Have an Abortion
Don’t think about the freckles he, or she, Might have, or how much hair, how big a…
Divine Authority
God and Moral Obligation by c. stephen evans oxford, 202 pages, $99 Divine command theory is hardly…
Saracens and Dominicans
A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Encounter with Islamby rita george-tvrtkovicbrepols, 248 pages, $116…
Dante Decluttered
The Divine Comedy by dante alighieri translated by clive james liveright, 560 pages, $29.95 For me, the…
