Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Spirituality Without Spirits

David Mills

It’s a great and self-serving mess, this claim to be “spiritual but not religious,” which we hear…

A Tribute to Cardinal John O’Connor (1920–2000)

Richard John Neuhaus and Others

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Cardinal John O’Connor, whom Richard John Neuhaus called…

Devotion and Sensibility

Gil Student

Judaism: A Way of Being by David Gelernter Yale, 248 pages, $26 n The gateway to a…

Bitter Pill

Timothy Reichert

Introduction Economists and other social scientists have written extensively about the impact that contraception has had on…

God and Mrs. Roosevelt

Mary Ann Glendon

In her 1958 autobiography, Eleanor Roosevelt described an occasion in the early days of the U.N. Human…

Truths Still Held?

George Weigel

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of John Courtney Murray’s We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on…

Review of With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party

Maria Andraca Carano

With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: In Company with Flannery O’Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others by…

Correspondence

Various

The Heat Is On I’d like to add a point to William Anderson’s “Some Like It Warm”…

O Homer, Where Art Thou?

Katherine Eastland

The Lost Books of the Odyssey: A Novel by zachary mason farrar, straus & giroux 240 pages,…

On The Birds

Kim Bridgford

Is love like this? A trap, a whirring thing That hunts you down by beak, and flock,…

Believe It or Not

David Bentley Hart

I think I am very close to concluding that this whole “New Atheism” movement is only a…

A Prayer for the Ice Age

Marion Shore

God grant you food and shelter from the wild, a flame to light the darkness of your…

Why Are the Jews Chosen?

David Novak

One way anti-Jewish sentiment has been interpreted is simply as a quid pro quo. Gentile animosity, in…

Review of Kinship by Covenant

R. R. Reno

Kinship by Covenant: A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God’s Saving Promises by Scott W. Hahn…

Review of Christians in the Movies

Matthew Kenefick

Christians in the Movies: A Century of Saints and Sinners by Peter E. Dans Rowman & Littlefield,…