Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Who Can Be Saved?
Nothing is more striking in the New Testament than the confidence with which it proclaims the saving…
The March Issue of First Things Is Here!
“A gift cannot so easily be severed from its giver,” writes Gilbert Meilaender, responding to the news…
Realigning Jewish Peoplehood
On July 22, 2007, the New York Times ran an article by Harvard law professor Noah Feldman…
The Conversion of England
Father John Christopher Aidan Nichols, O.P., is a figure to be reckoned with. Aidan Nichols, as he…
Conceiving Parenthood
It has become fashionable in some theological and political quarters to eschew the term libera l in…
Protecting the Church’s Freedom in Colorado
On January 30, a coalition of social service providers gathered on the steps of the Colorado State…
Hannah Montana
Even if you go around with one or several fingers stuffed into each ear, you will not…
Slavery, Christianity, and Islam
It has become a feature of today’s atheist chic to shy bricks at Christianity for its record…
Theology, Politics, and Abraham Joshua Heschel
Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972 by edward k. kaplan yale university press, 544 pages,…
Paved with the Skulls of Bishops
That’s a grim metaphor, maybe too grim. It’s from an endorsement of Philip F. Lawler’s book, to…
Getting Stem Cells Right
A true, no-cost resolution of a conflict, where the interests of all parties are served without compromise,…
Secularization Falsified
It has been more than a century since Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God. The prophecy was…
Immigration and the Bishops
Frustrated by the national government’s failed efforts to reform our immigration laws, many states and municipalities have…
Letters—February 2008
Angles on Anglicanism What Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi describes in his essay “What Is Anglicanism?” (September 2007)…
Till We Have Built Jerusalem
The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office by Ethan Anthony W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $60…
