Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Bah!

Chris O'Carroll

Mired deep in winter solstice cold and gloom, Craving festivities aglow with cheer, We lose our heads…

Just Kidding

Amy L. Wax

Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate by Christine Overall MIT, 272 pages, $27.95 This book, like my…

Ivy Reveries

George M. Marsden

College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco Princeton, 240 pages, $24.95 Books warning…

Drop the Mic

Kevin White

Catholic clergy and laity seem to accept the use of microphones at Mass without question as something…

The Case for Educational Pluralism

Ashley Rogers Berner

Public education means different things in different countries. In the United States, it means government-funded and government-delivered…

England’s Repressive Tolerance

Paul Diamond

Carrying a placard which read, “Jesus Gives Peace, Jesus is Alive, Stop Immorality, Stop Homosexuality, Stop Lesbianism,…

God and the Mad Hatter

David Bentley Hart

Materialism, being a fairly coarse superstition, tends to render its adherents susceptible to a great many utterly…

Chance, by Design

Stephen M. Barr

Christians who accept Darwinian evolution are, it is sometimes said, trying to have it both ways. If…

A Tale of Two Thomases

John Haldane

Consider this description of one of “America’s Byways”: “Traversing the lush hills and farmlands of southern Indiana,…

In God’s Name

Phillip Cary

The Divine Name(s) and the ?Holy Trinity: Distinguishing ?the Voices (volume 1) by R. Kendall Soulen Westminster…

The Tridentine Genius of Vatican II

Thomas Joseph White

Fifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council, two schools of thought dominate the interpretation…

A Friendly Dissent from Pentecostalism

Peter L. Berger

Rudolf Bultmann, the German New Testament scholar whose program for the “demythologization” of the Gospel provoked a…

Fencing the Altar

Edward Peters

For several years, Raymond Cardinal Burke, now Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, and…

Changelings

John Whitworth

Listen, your changeling children are swinging like monkeys, Hand-over-hand through the leaves of the trees of the…

Miraculous Witness

Leroy Huizenga

Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts by Craig S. Keener Baker Academic, 1172 pages, $59.99…