Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Farewell to the Woman Question
A prescient look at the coming postfeminist backlash by Midge Decter , the author of Liberal Parents,…
Drinking Stars
Down in the soul’s wine cellars The casks of virtue brood. They’re aging through the centuries, Like…
One Darkest Night
One darkest night I went, aflame with love’s devouring eager burning” O fortunate event!” no witnesses discerning,…
Foster Child
Everywhere she goes, he goes. She’s brought him here for Sunday tea. He’s been with me two…
Putting First Things First
In the editorial with which the premiere issue began, First Things announced its arrival on the American…
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…
Rejection Note for Paradise Regained
Loved that first book—it’s got no equal— but, Johnny, we don’t love your sequel. If you would…
Love is a Noun
One of the many clichés of book titling is the “____ is a verb” trick. It’s supposed…
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,…
