Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Is Mormonism Christian?
Bruce D. Porter Mormonism has been much in the news over the past year. The presidential campaign…
Augustine’s Confessions, 10.27.38
Wrongly thinking that beauty lay without, blindly I cast about. How late did I begin to realize…
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The Satires of Horace translated by A.M. Juster University of Pennsylvania Press, 160 pages, $34.95 Satire is…
What Lambeth Wrought
As the Anglican bishop Stephen Neill put it fifty years ago, “The first and burning question is…
Ain’t Nothing But a Meanness in This World
You’ll find here Truman Capote, and James Thurber, and Dorothy Killgallen, and “the queen of true crime,”…
A Lesson in Deep Ecology
Deep ecology, a movement launched by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1972, may be contrasted to…
There Will Be Blood
“Can everything around here be got?” oil man Daniel Plainview asks. “Sure” is the reply. And so…
That Evangelical Manifesto
The Public Square It was rolled out at the National Press Club on May 7 with the…
Thy Canonized Bones
The Quest For Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome by Joseph Pearce Ignatius,…
All Too Human
Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs HarperOne, 304 pages, $24.95 Chesterton said of original sin…
Benedict in America
In saying that one must guard against superlatives in recounting Pope Benedict’s apostolic visit this April, one…
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Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream by ross…
Lives Lived Greatly
The Public Square The beginnings of this reflection appeared on the First Things website. Permit me a…
Sure and Certain Hope
Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews _ by Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D.…
The Face of Morning
A morning showed its harsh and angry face, And people stumbling through the slush were stressed. They…
