Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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 . . .…
Christianity Face to Face with Islam
No event during the first millennium was more unexpected, more calamitous, and more consequential for Christianity than…
Letters—January 2009
The Life of Humanae VitaeMary Eberstadt (“ The Vindication of Humanae Vitae ,” August/September 2008) does an…
O Death, Where Is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by julian barnesknopf, 256 pages, $24.95 Death has many masks. He comes…
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,…
The “American” Religion
The great contest is over the culture, the guiding ideas and habits of mind and heart that…
Lifeboat Ethics
Since I’m a utilitarian, I’ll eat the vegetarian.
Self-Portrait at Fifty
None of this can be denied: crabby, flabby, full of pride; hypertensive, pensive, snide; slowing, growing terrified.
Effable
1 Where are words when not yet spoken: on the tongue, in the mind, perhaps in air,…
Natural Law Revealed
I The relations among nature, reason, and revelation are mysterious for both Protestants and Catholics. Consider John…
A Governing Shari’a
Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari’a by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im Harvard University Press,…
