Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Bridging the Tiber
Unsurprisingly, when in November 2009 the Holy See announced the establishment of personal ordinariates (similar to dioceses)…
Briefly Noted
The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture by Gary Saul Morson Yale, 352 pages, $30 n…
The Sacrifices of War
War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity ? by Stanley Hauerwas Baker…
The Divine Music of Mathematics
It is consoling to think that the emotions that music arouses in us have something to do…
Graveside Praise
Preaching Death: The Transformation of Christian Funeral Sermons by lucy bregman baylor, 263 pages, $24.95 If thirty…
Man the Religious Animal
Are human beings naturally religious? Should we take religion to be in some way an innate, instinctive,…
God Save the Queen
On February 6, Queen Elizabeth II marked her diamond jubilee, an achievement that Great Britain will celebrate…
Seductive Social Gospel
America remains religious, but it might have been otherwise. In the late nineteenth century, Americans whose fathers…
Critical Blindness
Freud ranks among the great critical minds of the modern era. He did not take our conscious…
Letters—March 2012
developing status Christopher Kaczor (“Equal Rights, Unequal Wrongs,” August/September) echoes a fallacious argument now popular among pro-life…
The One Percent
In an important new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010, Charles Murray observes that…
Radical Revelries
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation ? by Michael Kazin Knopf, 329 pages, $27.95 Radical…
Our Stories and God’s
The Sense of an Ending ?by Julian Barnes ?Knopf, 163 pages, $23.95 n You’re not the person…
St. Clare of Assisi
Her parents tired of locking her up before she tired of running away. Love mocks the locksmith,…
All Gone
quam magnus numerus Libyssae harenae lasarpiciferis iacet Cyrenis ”Catullus, 7 Silph-bearing Cyrenaica, said a poet, Alluding to…
