Theology

Magdala on the Via Maris hosted the caravans; Egyptian traffic”glass in ingots, ivory, lapis, apricots, papyrus, ostrich-feather…

A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill Yale University Press, 64 pages, $16 (paper) In 1659,…

A neighbor passing by the widow’s house Stopped dead on seeing him in the garage Behind the…

The Public Square The subject is bishops as theologians and theologians as bishops. The Christian world is…

For joy like this, the only words I know I’ve had to borrow from the other side:…

Though the most Deistic of the Founding Fathers, even Jefferson was not a full-fledged Deist if we…

Why Classical Music Still Matters by Lawrence Kramer University of California Press, 251 pages, $24.95 It’s perhaps…

In Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality , Robert P. Jones takes the measure of contemporary assisted-suicide advocacy…

The intemperate, even violent tone in recent criticisms of faith is quite striking. Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens: They…

Allegory fell on hard times in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although the charm of beloved works…

The Unification Theological Seminary (UTS), founded in 1975 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, lies nestled in…

Ecumenical Dialogues Avery Cardinal Dulles’ lucid, if disturbing, analysis of the reasons for the ecumenical project (“Saving…

In Madagascar there are moths that sip tears from sleeping birds. How hushed the wing; how light…

They’ve had so many jobs: boiling African porridge. Being printed on. Paving Paris, flying in her revolutions.…

A Challenging Reform: ­Realizing the Vision of the Liturgical Renewal, 1963-1975 by Piero Marini Liturgical Press, 205…