Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The End of the Bernardin Era
Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin died on November 14, 1996, after a moving and profoundly Christian battle with…
Squaring the Circle
The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against Its Modern Enemies and Immoderate Friends by…
While We’re At It
• Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is said to have a…
Through Yoga to Christianity
In the early 1990s I was living a high-stress lifestyle: running a successful international business and raising…
The Coens Keep the Faith
Famous for the Oscar-winning movies Fargo and No Country for Old Men, the team of filmmaking brothers…
Eleven
players on a soccer team stars in Joseph’s second dream odd reversible and prime dimensions (counting space…
When Atheists Are Angry at God
I’ve shaken my fist in anger at stalled cars, storm clouds, and incompetent meteorologists. I’ve even, on…
The Man-Made Messiah
The most recognized face of any Jewish leader of the past fifty years belongs to the late…
A Review of Chastened
Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex by Hephzibah Anderson Viking, 288 pages, $25.95 n…
The Ruins of Discontinuity
On September 19, 2010, at Crofton Park in Birmingham, England, Pope Benedict XVI beatified John Henry Newman.…
In a Funeral Procession
O soon will come the day when my grave-bound motorcade is led past sidewalk gawkers wondering who…
Keeping the Peace
Over the last few years there has been a sharp change in the rhetoric of the Catholic…
Review of Letters to a Young Calvinist
Letters to a Young Calvinist by James K.A. Smith Brazos, 160 pages, $14.99 Inspired by two very…
Philosophy Lives
Philosophy, Étienne Gilson observed, “always buries its undertakers.” “Philosophy,” according to Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, in…
A Review of Aesthetic Revelation
Aesthetic Revelation: Reading Ancient and Medieval Texts After Hans Urs von Balthasar by Oleg V. Bychkov Catholic…