Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What Art Can—and Can’t—Do
During flirtations with existentialism in my youth, I came to love the mysterious Book of Ecclesiastes, with…
Briefly Noted 225
What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of 19th Century American Rabbis by Naomi Cohen New York…
Catholics as They Were
The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America by James M. O’Toole Harvard University Press, 384 pages,…
On Loving the Law of God
The Public Square When I was a young Lutheran seminarian, I was struck by a professor’s forceful…
Hallelujah
Eyes open to praise The play of light Upon the ceiling” While still abed raise The roof…
The Persistence of the Catholic Moment
This essay by Richard John Neuhaus, who passed away January 8, 2009 , was originally printed in…
The Pro-Life Movement as the Politics of the 1960s
Whatever else it is, the pro-life movement of the last thirty-plus years is one of the most…
A Nation of Hustlers
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829“1877 by Walter A. McDougall Harper, 787 pages, $34.95…
Mind Games
Work on Oneself: Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Psychology by Fergus Kerr Institute for the Psychological Sciences Press, 119 pages,…
An Apology for Democratic Capitalism
Until 1989, the most underreported fact of the twentieth century was the death of socialism. Socialism as…
The Body of the Church
Can These Bones Live? A Catholic Baptist Engagement with Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, and Social Theory by Barry Harvey…
Desert Blossoming
The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the…
While We’re At It
• Here’s an interesting statement by Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News , who also runs…
Ghazal to the One
Sun’s bliss, leaf shadows, a honeyed breeze” The world as he would have it be for you,…
Disfigure of Speech
I hear the yowling of the cats of war . . . Oh no . . .…
