Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Review of Aesthetic Revelation
Aesthetic Revelation: Reading Ancient and Medieval Texts After Hans Urs von Balthasar by Oleg V. Bychkov Catholic…
America, America
Americans have always been an intensely patriotic people. Most of them love their country without reserve and…
Our Babies, Ourselves
Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America by Sara Dubow Oxford, 320 pages, $29.95…
A Review of The World in the Shadow of God
The World in the Shadow of God: An Introduction to Christian Natural Theology by Ephraim Radner Cascade,…
Miraculous Box
In the 1950s, late in the architect’s life, Le Corbusier built the chapel of Notre Dame du…
The Last of the Saffron Monks
Most mornings, U Pyinya Zawta meditates for an hour in lotus position, hands resting gently in his…
A Review of A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock ‘n’ Roll
A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock ’n’ Roll by Mark Judge Doubleday, 208 pages, $14…
Evangelizing Islam
In the book The Critique of Christian Origins , written in a.d. 995, Iranian theologian Abd al-Jabbar…
Why the News Makes Us Dumb
The period between Christmas and New Year’s Day is often described as a “slow-news week.” We use…
The Incarnation
It’s easy to step back and denounce the excesses of the Christmas season: the orgy of spending,…
Delivered From All Stain
“Yeah, right” is the way the more irenic of my Evangelical friends react to the Immaculate Conception,…
Cub Scout
You know how sometimes there’s a moment when everyone In the moment is startled by what happened…
Fail, Britannia
Two weeks before Pope Benedict’s visit to the United Kingdom this September, former British prime minister Tony…
Why We Can’t Hear Wagner’s Music
Late in the nineteenth century, men and women in apparent possession of their senses heard Richard Wagner’s…
A Caricature of History
A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century: From Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences By…
