Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Chapel Takes Flight
Perched on a dramatic site along the Rampart Range of the Rocky Mountains, the United States Air…
Much Ado About “Nothing”: Stephen Hawking and the Self-Creating Universe
Has physics done away with God? A newly release book by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow says,…
Willy-Nilly
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by james shapiro simon & schuster, 339 pages, $26 The subtitle of James…
Last Rites
Lauren Zaleta limps out of the main dance studio of the Joffrey Ballet School in New York…
The Desert Fathers
In 1995, when I was a college sophomore (in more ways than one), I drove from New…
The God of the Mathematicians
Kurt Gödel was a believer—or, at least, a knower—whose engagement with God included a reworking of the…
A Proper Place
The Roman church of Sant’Agnese in Agone sits along the edge of the Piazza Novona. One of…
The Signpost at the Crossroads
You head down the road of public life in America, and you run up against religion. From…
Through a Glass, Clearly
Over the past ninety years or so, the American debate about the national interest and the national…
A Perfect Game
In his later philosophy, Heidegger liked to indulge in eccentric etymologies because he was certain that there…
A Richer Bible
The true Church of Christ teaches the gospel. The Bible is the sacred and canonical witness to…
The Morality of Self-Interest
Nations fail, Augustine argued, because peoples fail, and peoples fail because they love the wrong things. A…
Reforming the Health-Care Reform
For all the weeping and crying and gnashing of teeth among conservatives, it’s important to recognize the…
Nothing to See Here
Whatever happened to bioethics? The decade between the cloning of Dolly the sheep and the election of…
In the Name of the Sons
On a cold night last October, two men stood shoulder to shoulder in front of a small…