Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Reason Enraptured
Anyone who tries to evaluate the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar faces not only the sheer…
Eudaimonia in America
America is under attack in the pages of First Things. In a recent article Notre Dame professor…
Easter Spoils, 2012
Words to a prison friend, spoken in haste. / Gestapo men had come to transfer him, /…
Black Power, White Fear
Black Power, White Fear I first saw them when I was thirteen or fourteen. They were frightening,…
The French Quarter
Yes, I remember Bourbon Street: / The pulse of jazz; the girls (and boys / Done up…
Evangelical Catholicism
The deep reform of the Catholic Church has been underway since the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII…
David Foster Wallace to the Rescue
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
There is a long, rich, varied, and subtle tradition of natural law theory, almost none of which…
NCAA
It’s always been / Reward the win, / Ignore the sin. ...
Fathers Abraham
Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Jon D. Levenson Princeton,…
Thoroughly Modern Mary
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín Scribner, 81 pages, $19.99 All told, Mary utters only two…
Homosexual Marriage, Parenting, and Adoption
This essay unfortunately has a number of plagiarized passages that were only discovered after First Things had…
Crosswalk
For several days I’ve watched a robin beat / Herself repeatedly against a window. ...
Letters—February 2013
Consumerist Care It is true that the medical services Wesley J. Smith defines as “consumerist”—such as cosmetic…
Seeing the God
For the first ten of its eleven chapters, the Metamorphosis or Golden Ass of Apuleius (c. 125-c.…
