Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
American Crust
We upper-crust must be discussed In deferential accents. We want not, waste, exhibit taste, Possess exquisite tax-sense.…
Shakespeare’s Religion
In 1613, at the end of his career, Shakespeare joined John Fletcher to dramatize the reign of…
A Marriage in Full
In 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a letter from his prison cell in Nazi Germany to a young…
A Commonplace Book
Awhile back, I started keeping a commonplace book. Commonplace book is an odd phrase, perhaps, because what…
Jews as the Romans Saw Them
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by martin goodman knopf, 624 pages, $35 When I…
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis
In Wladimir Solowjew’s History of the Antichrist, the eschatological enemy of the Redeemer recommended himself to believers,…
Listening to Benedict
That’s the main thing¯to listen to what he says. I expect the texts for the public events…
The Possibilities and Perils in Being a Really Smart Bishop
The Public Square The subject is bishops as theologians and theologians as bishops. The Christian world is…
Flipside
For joy like this, the only words I know I’ve had to borrow from the other side:…
AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right
Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and…
Smelly Olde England
I lived, while in England, at a confluence—the intersection of a pedestrian lane, which led to three…
April Letters
The Moral Law Reading Robert George’s “Law and Moral Purpose” (January 2008), I found myself nodding in…
The Magdalenes
Magdala on the Via Maris hosted the caravans; Egyptian traffic”glass in ingots, ivory, lapis, apricots, papyrus, ostrich-feather…
Poetics and Power
A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill Yale University Press, 64 pages, $16 (paper) In 1659,…
The Resurrection of the Body
A neighbor passing by the widow’s house Stopped dead on seeing him in the garage Behind the…
