Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Secularizations
As with most academic traditions, and especially those that are viewed as soft, there are orthodoxies and…
Progress Without Pause
Dear Hannah, I know you saw the news almost a year ago about the successful cloning of…
A Place in the Cosmos
The Writings of Charles De Koninck, Volume 1 edited by Ralph McInerny University of Notre Dame Press,…
The Will to Disbelieve
Imagine for a moment that much of the world is living under a set of ideas that…
God-Talk
Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology by Michael Fishbane University of Chicago Press, 246 pages, $30 The word…
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…
Letters—February 2009
Mr. Smith Goes to NiceaBruce D. Porter and Gerald R. McDermott’s dual analysis (“Is Mormonism Christian?” October…
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…
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…
