Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
One Small Step
i.m. Neil Armstrong “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” —Neil Armstrong,…
Dead-End Dialectic
Rudolf Bultmann: A Biography by Konrad Hammann Polebridge, 624 pages, $60 In his recently translated biography of…
From Play to Freedom
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Immanuel Kant contended that struggle is the motive force of…
Search Me, O God
What is most alarming about popular young adult novelist Cory Doctorow’s vision is the understanding of God…
A Reply to My Critics
Perhaps it was inevitable in a symposium organized by First Things that all three commentators fault my…
Almost a Franciscan
A long walk up the mountain from Assisi— my boot heel severed from my right foot Redwing,…
Briefly Noted
Menachem Begin: A Life by Avi Shilon translated by Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett Yale, 584 pages,…
The Crisis of Conservative Judaism
The institutions of Conservative Judaism—its synagogues, its summer camps, its youth organizations, its sisterhoods and men’s organizations,…
Unmythical Martyrs
The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom by candida moss HarperOne, 320…
Medicinal Murder
The forty-five-year-old twin brothers had not contracted a terminal illness. Nor were Marc and Eddy Verbessem in…
The Dumb Ox and the Orthodox
Orthodox Readings of Aquinas by Marcus Plested Oxford, 272 pages, $99 The Greeks never had any interest…
Rahner the Restorationist
Karl Rahner was once the figure to be reckoned with. When, at the very outset of the…
Nature Loves to Hide
Two issues back, I spoke ill of a modern form of natural law theory that unsuccessfully attempts…
Kurzweil’s Phantasms
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil Viking, 352 pages,…
Schooling Dangerously
Homeschooling in America: Capturing and Assessing the Movement by joseph murphy Corwin, 200 pages, $34.95 The Year…
