Theology

Fifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council, two schools of thought dominate the interpretation…

Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine by Khaled Anatolios Baker Academic, 400 pages, $39.99…

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat Free Press, 352 pages, $26…

Best to begin in medias res, says Horace, so let me start with two exemplary excerpts from…

Thirteen theses in defense of so-called heteronormativity and other supposed heresies, from a Christian and specifically Catholic…

God will Judge After reading Daniel Philpott’s “Peace After Genocide” (June/July), I want to offer a few…

Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873–1973? by Allan Carlson Transaction, 172 pages, $29.95 Seeing our…

Some people can change their sexual orientation with the help of therapy. So said Robert Spitzer—“considered by…

The writings of Plato and Aristotle are often described as works of reason, as opposed to the…

The topknot turned. Light struck the needled floor. / The darts of sunlight found you where you…

Students in my constitutional law course are usually surprised, and often skeptical, when I propose that the…

• We all have a romantic image of monks patiently copying texts in their scriptoria, with the…

Every epoch has its secular religion, a perverse imitation of Christianity that takes part of the Christian…

On June 19, 2012, the Reverend Fred Luter was elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention,…

The Affordable Care Act mandates that employers offer and individuals buy insurance that provides free contraceptives, abortion-inducing…