Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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. ...
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.…
Coming Attractions
The Future Church: How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing The Catholic Church by John L. Allen Jr. Doubleday,…
Unbalancing Act
The Future of Islam by John L. Esposito Oxford, 220 pages, $24.95 n In the forward to…
Prayer
Lord, late though I am, slide the lathe / And shape, shave me. Shear me wraith- /…
Review of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties by Jonathan Leaf Regnery, 247 pages, $19.95 n “What a…
Review of Life in Space
Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone by Lucas John Mix Harvard, 344 pages, $29.95 n Mix is…
Galilee Guesthouse
Coffee and leather armchairs, candlelit, / Card-playing in corners, glassware, jumping flames...
The Bible, Rated R
W.W. Norton, the publisher of R. Crumb’s best-selling The Book of Genesis Illustrated , was certainly aware…
Et in Arcadia Ego
The evergreens haunt the vineyard’s margin, encircling the bare / Truck-and-backhoe mangled hill from whose dry crest…
