Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Trial of Jesus
This essay is adapted from the 23rd Erasmus Lecture, delivered in March, 2010. For the last four…
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
The bird is fiction though the paint is real / the paint, that is, of the original.…
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…
Architecture
When I attended architecture school in the 1980s, I was rather skeptical of the modernist project. Instead,…
Spirituality Without Spirits
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)
Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Cardinal John O’Connor, whom Richard John Neuhaus called…
Devotion and Sensibility
Judaism: A Way of Being by David Gelernter Yale, 248 pages, $26 n The gateway to a…
Bitter Pill
Introduction Economists and other social scientists have written extensively about the impact that contraception has had on…
God and Mrs. Roosevelt
In her 1958 autobiography, Eleanor Roosevelt described an occasion in the early days of the U.N. Human…
Truths Still Held?
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
With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: In Company with Flannery O’Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others by…
