Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

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The Promise of Christian Humanism: Thomas Aquinas on Hope by Dominic F. Doyle Crossroad, 248 pages, $34.95…

Purpose and Function

David Bentley Hart

This is the last I shall write on this topic, I promise. I do not want to…

James Joyce: Right About the Church?

Melinda Selmys

In the opening line of James Joyce’s Ulysses, stately, plump Buck Mulligan bears “a bowl of lather…

The Long Room

Rob Griffith

Alive in the long, deep room of the soul, / I feel, at 41, absurdly old, /…

God, Gods, and Fairies

David Bentley Hart

One of the strangest claims often made by purveyors and consumers of today’s popular atheism is that…

Introduction

R. R. Reno

In December 2012, more than twenty scholars gathered in New York for a seminar to discuss the…

Solidarity

R. R. Reno

Money matters, but not as much as we’ve come to think. Even if everybody in America enjoyed…

Impossible Pluralism

Paul J. Griffiths

Robert Bellah understands religion as an activity that takes us beyond the quotidian. The everyday world is…

One Small Step

Claudia Gary

Since Peter Ford has clarified the sound / once uttered on the moon but dropped in Houston,…

Dead-End Dialectic

R. R. Reno

Rudolf Bultmann: A Biography by Konrad Hammann Polebridge, 624 pages, $60 In his recently translated biography of…

From Play to Freedom

Francesca Aran Murphy

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Immanuel Kant contended that struggle is the motive force of…

Search Me, O God

Glenn C. Arbery

What is most alarming about popular young adult novelist Cory Doctorow’s vision is the understanding of God…

A Reply to My Critics

Robert N. Bellah

Perhaps it was inevitable in a symposium organized by First Things that all three commentators fault my…

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Menachem Begin: A Life by Avi Shilon translated by Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett Yale, 584 pages,…

The Crisis of Conservative Judaism

Edward S. Shapiro

The institutions of Conservative Judaism—its synagogues, its summer camps, its youth organizations, its sisterhoods and men’s organizations,…