Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Incarnation
It’s easy to step back and denounce the excesses of the Christmas season: the orgy of spending,…
Delivered From All Stain
“Yeah, right” is the way the more irenic of my Evangelical friends react to the Immaculate Conception,…
Why We Can’t Hear Wagner’s Music
Late in the nineteenth century, men and women in apparent possession of their senses heard Richard Wagner’s…
A Caricature of History
A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century: From Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences by…
Caesar’s Thumb
At the close of the last century, as the reckoning was drawn up in Europe for the…
Bearing Better Witness
When even Christianity Today is asking, “Is the Gay Marriage Debate Over?” the issue has become so…
The Perfect Human
The assembled photographers stand on the concrete ramp outside the United Nations building on September 23 and…
Perfect Harmony
Rabbi Akiva taught that all the Bible’s songs are holy, and Song of Songs is the holy…
Whit Stillman is Running Late
Whit Stillman wants to meet at the Harvard Club at exactly noon, on the eleventh day of…
Letters—December 2010
Policy Pollyanna Foreign-policy experts tend toward blindness to the moral aspects of what they analyze, and theologians…
Cub Scout
You know how sometimes there’s a moment when everyone In the moment is startled by what happened…
Fail, Britannia
Two weeks before Pope Benedict’s visit to the United Kingdom this September, former British prime minister Tony…
College Descriptions
American UniversityWashington, D.C.ft rating: academic 27.9,social 31.3, religious 16.4Established by Congress in 1893, American University quickly became…
Mandatory Chapel
Add up the music conservatories and the seminaries, the enormous land-grant universities and the tiny Bible colleges,…
Setting the Course
Dangerous Christians There are different ways to respond to a crisis. The first is to bellyache about…
