Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Fathers Abraham
Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Jon D. Levenson Princeton,…
Thoroughly Modern Mary
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín Scribner, 81 pages, $19.99 All told, Mary utters only two…
Homosexual Marriage, Parenting, and Adoption
This essay unfortunately has a number of plagiarized passages that were only discovered after First Things had…
Crosswalk
For several days I’ve watched a robin beat Herself repeatedly against a window. An oracle. A bird-sign…
Letters—February 2013
Consumerist Care It is true that the medical services Wesley J. Smith defines as “consumerist”—such as cosmetic…
Seeing the God
For the first ten of its eleven chapters, the Metamorphosis or Golden Ass of Apuleius (c. 125-c.…
Toward a Just Order
A half century ago, John Courtney Murray’s response to Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris raised…
Limiting Moralism
A state is not a church. A state exists not to redeem humankind or to do God’s…
The Good Samaritan’s Burden
In his interestingly wrong-headed essay, Paul Miller argues that there are extraterritorial evils so great that they…
Triolet
Believing in the Eucharist, My faith affirmed within the Host, I welcome”with an upturned wrist, Believing in…
Responsible Conservatism
Conservatism needs to recover its ability to speak to our deep and perennial need for solidarity. The…
Afghanistan, Justice, and War
Afghanistan is a just war, and a just victory requires the reconstruction of the country. So I…
Briefly Noted
Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott Norton, 400 pages, $17.95 In a…
PORGIing Out
America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats) by David Gelernter Encounter Books,…
Fatherhood After Christmas
My friend’s six-year-old son wanted to be God the Father in the Christmas pageant. He reasoned that…
