Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Richer Bible
The true Church of Christ teaches the gospel. The Bible is the sacred and canonical witness to…
The God of the Mathematicians
Kurt Gödel was a believer—or, at least, a knower—whose engagement with God included a reworking of the…
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…
The Cost of Father Maciel
Cardinal Sodano has to go. The dean of the College of Cardinals, he has been found too…
The Trial of Jesus
For the last four years, I have been conducting, at New York University’s School of Law, a…
Review of God, Philosophy, Universities
n God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition BY ALASDAIR MACINTYRE ROWMAN &…
Apostasy Sells
n The Death and Life of the Great American School System BY DIANE RAVITCH BASIC BOOKS, 283…
Goldfinch
Carel Fabritius. 1654, oil on panel, 35.2 cm. x 22.8 cm. The bird is fiction though the…
Down and Dirty
n The Pregnant Widow BY MARTIN AMIS ALFRED A. KNOPF, 384 PAGES, $26.95 nn Martin Amis’ Money…
Regard the Scuttlebutt as True
In the hot Washington afternoon, in one of those endlessly bustling government offices, there sits a man…
Complete Poussiniana
Deep in myth, these galleries keep their counsel but re-distribute all the elements. Nymph rides goat, at-tended…
Architecture
When I attended architecture school in the 1980s, I was rather skeptical of the modernist project. Instead,…
