Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Chance, by Design
Christians who accept Darwinian evolution are, it is sometimes said, trying to have it both ways. If…
A Tale of Two Thomases
Consider this description of one of “America’s Byways”: “Traversing the lush hills and farmlands of southern Indiana,…
Conflict Resolution
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism by Alvin Plantinga Oxford, 376 pages, $27.95 “Naturalism”…
The Orthodox Renaissance
At the beginning of the twentieth century, those Westerners who knew about the Orthodox Church tended to…
In God’s Name
The Divine Name(s) and the ?Holy Trinity: Distinguishing ?the Voices (volume 1) by R. Kendall Soulen Westminster…
A Friendly Dissent from Pentecostalism
Rudolf Bultmann, the German New Testament scholar whose program for the “demythologization” of the Gospel provoked a…
Fencing the Altar
For several years, Raymond Cardinal Burke, now Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, and…
Changelings
Listen, your changeling children are swinging like monkeys, / Hand-over-hand through the leaves of the trees of…
Miraculous Witness
Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts by Craig S. Keener Baker Academic, 1172 pages, $59.99…
Salutary Slander
The Virtues of Our Vices: ? A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits by…
Lifeline
At twenty inches tall you first stood up, / Attracting my attention with loud coos / Under…
Scrutinizing the Sacred
The Face of God by Roger Scruton Continuum, 200 pages, $27.95 The search for God can take…
Therapeutic Superstition
Some years ago, when I was nineteen and living in the north of England, I knew a…
Chastened Humanism
You cannot help but like a serious thinker who demolishes the pretensions of various fashionable currents of…
On Susan
Susan was a colleague in Baylor’s Honors College, not exactly a friend, though we were quite friendly.…