Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters—January 2012
Purgatorial Conformity Gary Anderson (“Is Purgatory Biblical?” November) gives a capable defense of the doctrine of purgatory…
Libertarian Limits
On Tolerance: ? A Defence of Moral Independence by Frank Furedi Continuum, 224 pages, $22.95 The independent-minded…
Briefly Noted
A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in this Life and the Next ? by David…
Dream Vocation
It happened in a country like Tibet, / My dream: I’d climbed a mountain pass and found…
A Complete Life
John Hall Wheelock, a minor twentieth-century poet—dubbed “the last romantic” in the title of his oral autobiography—captured…
The Evangelical Reform of Catholic Advocacy
The Catholic Church of the early twenty-first century is constantly being told that it must reform, both…
Winter Concert
At St. Progressive University / We toil to demonstrate diversity. ...
Natural Rights Trump Obamacare, or Should
Past the politics of Obamacare”the tawdry buying of votes, the spectacle of representatives in a republic passing…
On Listening to Haydn
If God were only Wisdom-born-of-Power, / and from that coming forth that ever was / there came…
Briefly Noted
Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines 1740“1803 ?by Ulrich L. Lehner? Oxford 356 pages, $99 n As a…
Icarus
If no one on the ground or ocean / was injured when he turned to a noun…
Amiable Atheism
In its marketing campaign, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible was presented as something akin to the…
Letters—December 2011
Tradent and Traitor I am disappointed that my former colleague Leroy Huizenga wrote and that First Things…
With What Right and What Justice?
Five hundred years ago this Advent, a Dominican friar named Antonio de Montesino delivered a sermon haranguing…
Books for Christmas
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…
