Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Eucalypts in Exile
They’ve had so many jobs: boiling African porridge. Being printed on. Paving Paris, flying in her revolutions.…
Terra Firma
Yes, you’re right. I’m sure Armageddon’s coming: wars, tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, locusts, killer flus, et cetera. Yes,…
How I Became the Catholic I Was
The path First Things founder Richard John Neuhaus followed from a Lutheran boyhood to the Catholic priesthood…
Love is a Noun
One of the many clichés of book titling is the “____ is a verb” trick. It’s supposed…
Review of Who Killed the Constitution?
Who Killed the Constitution? by Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R.C. Gutzman Crown Forum, 272 pages,…
Review of The Devil Reads Derrida
The Devil Reads Derrida: And Other Essays on the University, the Church, Politics, and the Arts by…
The Papal Difference
It was Norman Mailer, I think, who once quipped that most contemporary social criticism is the desperate…
Review of Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning
Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning: The Action Theory and Moral Thought of Hannah Arendt in the…
Loading Timber
The quarter-inch chain is wrapped around the spruce like a Saxon’s braiding, woven on a forearm. He…
Coming Attractions
The Future Church: How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing The Catholic Church by John L. Allen Jr. Doubleday,…
Unbalancing Act
The Future of Islam by John L. Esposito Oxford, 220 pages, $24.95 n In the forward to…
Prayer
Lord, late though I am, slide the lathe And shape, shave me. Shear me wraith- Slim, slave-thin;…
Review of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties by Jonathan Leaf Regnery, 247 pages, $19.95 n “What a…
Review of Life in Space
Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone by Lucas John Mix Harvard, 344 pages, $29.95 n Mix is…
Galilee Guesthouse
Coffee and leather armchairs, candlelit,nCard-playing in corners, glassware, jumping flamesnIn open fire places. Drinks to hand we…
