Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Enlistee
This wrestler isn’t ready yet for college, / instead he’s shaved his head for the Marines. ...
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…
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…
