Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
While We’re At It – Pt. IV
• We all have a romantic image of monks patiently copying texts in their scriptoria, with the…
The Lawrence Tree
Outside Taos, New Mexico The topknot turned. Light struck the needled floor. The darts of sunlight found…
2012 Supreme Court Roundup
Students in my constitutional law course are usually surprised, and often skeptical, when I propose that the…
Human Unity Real and Imagined
Every epoch has its secular religion, a perverse imitation of Christianity that takes part of the Christian…
Southern Baptists’s Long Journey
On June 19, 2012, the Reverend Fred Luter was elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention,…
The Virgin Mary’s Spiritual Lessons
I love the Feast of the Assumption. The readings for the day include a dragon ready to…
Memory of the Li River
Sand and gravel lie still on the bed of the river. Peaks like spear-points pierce the clouds…
Yeshiva Lessons
When the prophet Isaiah spoke to the Jewish people and said, “You yourselves shall be named priests…
Letters
Christian Societies “In the long run Christians by culture could hardly exist without some communities of actual…
Through a Gloss, Darkly
In French and English, the Latin verb traducere—“to transfer,” “to convert,” “to lead across,” but also “to…
Conscience and Coercion
In the nineteenth century, in encyclicals from Gregory XVI’s Mirari Vos in 1832 to Leo XIII’s Libertas…
Paradoxical Francis
Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thompson, O.P. Cornell, 312 pages, $29.95 One of the…
The Art of Liberty
The following is a response to Patrick J. Deneen’s “Unsustainable Liberalism.” The other response, by Paul J.…
Public Life Without Political Theory
The following is a response to Patrick J. Deneen’s Unsustainable Liberalism. The other response, by Daniel J.…
Soulful Houellebecq
The Map and the Territory by michel houellebecq, translated by gavin bowd knopf, 269 pages, $26.95 Man…
