Theology

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Anti-Antipolitics

Gladden J. Pappin

In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible by Michael Walzer Yale, 256 pages, $28 In the…

Si Fueris Romae

David Bentley Hart

In 1919, Davidson Black—today chiefly remembered as a colleague of Teilhard de Chardin—was made a professor in…

Reason Enraptured

Edward T. Oakes

Anyone who tries to evaluate the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar faces not only the sheer…

Eudaimonia in America

Robert T. Miller

America is under attack in the pages of First Things. In a recent article Notre Dame professor…

Easter Spoils, 2012

Charles Hughes

Words to a prison friend, spoken in haste. / Gestapo men had come to transfer him, /…

Black Power, White Fear

R. R. Reno

Black Power, White Fear I first saw them when I was thirteen or fourteen. They were frightening,…

The French Quarter

Chris O'Carroll

Yes, I remember Bourbon Street: / The pulse of jazz; the girls (and boys / Done up…

Evangelical Catholicism

George Weigel

The deep reform of the Catholic Church has been underway since the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII…

David Foster Wallace to the Rescue

James K. A. Smith

Let’s not speak of suicide. Let’s not encourage the cottage industry bent on reducing David Foster Wallace…

Is, Ought, and Nature’s Laws

David Bentley Hart

There is a long, rich, varied, and subtle tradition of natural law theory, almost none of which…

NCAA

Robert W. Crawford

It’s always been / Reward the win, / Ignore the sin. ...

Fathers Abraham

Ephraim Radner

Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Jon D. Levenson Princeton,…

Thoroughly Modern Mary

Randy Boyagoda

The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín Scribner, 81 pages, $19.99 All told, Mary utters only two…

Homosexual Marriage, Parenting, and Adoption

Gilles Bernheim

This essay unfortunately has a number of plagiarized passages that were only discovered after First Things had…

Crosswalk

Wilmer Mills

For several days I’ve watched a robin beat / Herself repeatedly against a window. ...