Theology
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Renewing Dogmatic Theology
Catholics in the last fifty years or so have almost completely ceased to do dogmatic theology. Save…
Icons
No one now expects the rough Hilarity of Cruikshank ”The flight of hands like larks Beneath the…
My Failed Atheism
In thirty years as a professor, of graduate seminars, academic conferences, committee meetings, lunches and dinners, and…
Divine Mercy Sunday
The parish doorbell rings. When I descend the stair nobody is there, only a bag that sings…
Faith’s Social Vision
The World as It Could Be: Catholic Social Thought for a New Generation by thomas d. williams…
The Enlistee
This wrestler isn’t ready yet for college, instead he’s shaved his head for the Marines. It isn’t…
Sin’s Political Lessons
“Sin’s Political Lessons” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on…
Letters—May 2012
Theology From The Bench Richard Garnett celebrates the clarity that the Supreme Court’s recent Hosanna-Tabor decision purportedly…
Holy Week, Ecce Homo, Ecce Us
My intention with this column was to share some musings on the words of Pontius Pilate as…
The Myth of Public Reason
In recent decades a consensus has emerged that religious ideas and theological notions are sectarian and private…
Bodily Revulsions
The Meaning of Disgust by Colin McGinn Oxford, 264 pages, $35 n The eminent philosopher Colin McGinn…
Letters—April 2012
Disorder & Diseased As Stanton Jones shows (“Same-Sex Science,” February), the position that “gay is good” is…
A Dream For Our Political Season
A former student recently asked me to recommend a classical text that he might read during the…
Pornography and Acedia
A uniquely toxic combination of the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh has…
Do Not Rashly Tear Asunder
The struggle for the soul of the United Methodist Church has reached a decisive point. At every…
