Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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
This essay was delivered as the 24th Erasmus Lecture. John Hall Wheelock, a minor twentieth-century poet—dubbed “the…
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…
On Literature and the Life of Torah
It was not inevitable that I would come to read Colm Tóibín. I had resisted putting him…
Briefly Noted
Julian of Norwich, Theologian by Denys Turner Yale, 262 pages, $40 n The fourteenth-century anchorite Julian of…
