Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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...
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…
Desert Blossoming
A desert needs only an orphan’s portion of rain on seeds deep and dormant / For acres…
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…
Disfigure of Speech
I hear the yowling of the cats of war . . .
Christianity Face to Face with Islam
This essay is adapted from the 22nd Erasmus Lecture. No event during the first millennium was more…
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…
