Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Classical Age
Why Classical Music Still Matters by Lawrence Kramer University of California Press, 251 pages, $24.95 It’s perhaps…
Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality
In Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality , Robert P. Jones takes the measure of contemporary assisted-suicide advocacy…
The Offense of Piety
The intemperate, even violent tone in recent criticisms of faith is quite striking. Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens: They…
How to Read the Bible
Allegory fell on hard times in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although the charm of beloved works…
Where Have All the Moonies Gone?
The Unification Theological Seminary (UTS), founded in 1975 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, lies nestled in…
March Letters 214
Ecumenical Dialogues Avery Cardinal Dulles’ lucid, if disturbing, analysis of the reasons for the ecumenical project (“Saving…
Annunciation
In Madagascar there are moths that sip tears from sleeping birds. How hushed the wing; how light…
Eucalypts in Exile
They’ve had so many jobs: boiling African porridge. Being printed on. Paving Paris, flying in her revolutions.…
The Spirit of Vatican II
A Challenging Reform: Realizing the Vision of the Liturgical Renewal, 1963-1975 by Piero Marini Liturgical Press, 205…
Clerical Scandal and the Scandal of Clericalism
Clerical Scandal and the Scandal of Clericalism Russell Shaw admits that some people think he has become…
Religious Freedom Upside Down (and a word on William F. Buckley Jr.)
Steven D. Smith, professor of law at the University of San Diego, has an admirable review of…
Reproduction and Public Discourse
Benedict XVI recently asked the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to turn its attention to…
The Pope and the United Nations
The pope has John Allen worried. In a column published in the New York Times , Allen,…
The Death of the Grown-up
My reflexive response on reading Diana West’s The Death of the Grown-up has been to keep announcing…
An Interview with Timothy Keller
On any given Sunday in Manhattan, before and after theater matinees, visits to museums, and walks in…
