Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters—April 2011
MACINTYRE’S ECONOMICS Robert T. Miller first says that I am a great philosopher (“Waiting for St. Vladimir,”…
A Review of God’s Many-Splendored Image
God’s Many-Splendored Image by Nonna Verna Harrison Baker, 207 pages, $22.99 n Genesis 1:27 declares that human…
Evangelicals Divided
Long confused with fundamentalism by most of the academy and dismissed as intellectually inadequate, evangelical theology has…
A Review of I Am with You Always
I Am with You Always by Benedict Groeschel Ignatius, $37.95, 507 pages n From the New Testament…
Memories of a Catholic Boyhood
On the wall of my Newsweek office, I kept a large map, in a mosaic of colors,…
God, the Devil, and The King’s Speech
Just after my wife and I watched the new hit movie, “The King’s Speech,” a friend asked…
Thomas Merton and Confucianism
I’m not sure when I first met Tom Merton. It was probably in the middle of my…
The Business of Medicine
White Coat, Black Hat:Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine by carl elliott beacon, 213 pages, $21.95…
Blurring Sexual Boundaries
The definition of gender-related discrimination and of “hate crimes” is becoming ever more imaginative on both sides…
Late Night
Late orange light reflected from the lake Leaps up into the mountain’s shade, And suddenly a crouching…
Govett’s Leap
Looking across to Bridal Veil Falls, You feel your weight’s Free will against the fence Urging you…
Reading the Bible with the Reformers
For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked,…
Dear Juan de la Cruz
I gave my class your “dark night” poem to read, not telling them who wrote it. They…
Real Death, Real Dignity
He was a dignified man suffering all the embarrassing ways a hospice deals with the body’s failure…
The Dialectic and the Double Helix
While a graduate student in history in the 1990s, I once asked a German friend what she…
