Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Primacy of Witness
The greatest cultural”and ecclesial”challenge we have to confront is the loss of a palpable sense that God’s…
When the Wind Blows
I would have liked to linger in this room, / But a rough wind was blowing. ...
Briefly Noted
The Promise of Christian Humanism: Thomas Aquinas on Hope by Dominic F. Doyle Crossroad, 248 pages, $34.95…
Purpose and Function
This is the last I shall write on this topic, I promise. I do not want to…
James Joyce: Right About the Church?
In the opening line of James Joyce’s Ulysses, stately, plump Buck Mulligan bears “a bowl of lather…
The Long Room
Alive in the long, deep room of the soul, / I feel, at 41, absurdly old, /…
God, Gods, and Fairies
One of the strangest claims often made by purveyors and consumers of today’s popular atheism is that…
Introduction
In December 2012, more than twenty scholars gathered in New York for a seminar to discuss the…
Solidarity
Money matters, but not as much as we’ve come to think. Even if everybody in America enjoyed…
Impossible Pluralism
Robert Bellah understands religion as an activity that takes us beyond the quotidian. The everyday world is…
One Small Step
Since Peter Ford has clarified the sound / once uttered on the moon but dropped in Houston,…
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…
