Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters—November 2009
Notre Dame, Again I find myself in substantial agreement with Joseph Bottum’s central thesis(“And the War Came,”…
Irving Kristol, 1920–2009
The two most enjoyable activities of mankind are gossip and metaphysics”the sparkles on the shallows of conversation…
Karen Novak, 1938–2009
I almost emailed Karen today. It’s just part of how we live now, that electronic tic. There…
Simon Schama Whigs Out
The American Future: A History by Simon Schama Ecco, 400 pages, $29.99 It’s not easy for an…
Iconic Vision
Encounters with God: In Quest of Ancient Icons of Mary by Sr. Wendy Beckett Orbis Books, 132…
Saint Rolston
Saving Creation: Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III by Christopher J. Preston Trinity,…
Saint Askew
St. Askew’s shoe Shall always undo The earth tips And he does too Singing he sighs As…
July
Who would eat An egg you fry On the sidewalk In July?
We Were Believers Once, and Young
A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, With “On My Religion” by John Rawls…
The Summer of 1683
The Enemy at the Gate: Hapsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft Basic, 368…
Briefly Noted 10-09
Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity by William Murchison Encounter, 215 pages, $25.95 The…
Foster Child
Everywhere she goes, he goes. She’s brought him here for Sunday tea. He’s been with me two…
A Prayer Book of One’s Own
There’s a buzz in the air in the Orthodox Jewish community, and it’s about the publication of…
The Moral Witness of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
With his passing a year ago—on August 3, 2008, at the age of eighty-nine—the world was obliged…
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (and Christ)
I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but…
