Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Faithful Catholics and Faithful Americans
For the early Christians, living in societies that were at best indifferent to Christianity and frequently hostile,…
Stephen Colbert and the Value of Truthiness
In the November issue of First Things, Joseph Bottum wrote, “The weakest set of candidates in living…
The Bell Tolls for School Vouchers? The U.S. Senate and Religion Fraud, and A Brilliant Appointment
This week, the school-voucher referendum went down to a crushing defeat in Utah. It was a very…
The World and the Holy Grail
For some time now, I’ve been reading Bill Bryson’s terrific 2003 book, A Short History of Nearly…
The Catholic Novel Is Alive and Well in England
Some people believe that the Catholic novel is either dead or terminally ill. In 1982, one critic…
Cooking the Books in Germany
A story in the New York Times explains that, in Germany, the government fixes the prices at…
Religion and Politics Debate
On Saturday, November 10, at Gotham Hall in New York City, The Economist magazine will sponsor a…
Written in Stone
The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea by rémi brague university of chicago, 336…
Why Nigeria Matters
More than ten thousand Nigerians have lost their lives in communal unrest since 1999. One incident in…
Spending the Future
The Legitimacy of Philanthropic Foundations: United States and European Perspectives edited by kenneth prewitt et al. russell…
On the Recent Publication of Kahlil Gibran’s COLLECTED WORKS
I Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran, And weary grows the mind doomed…
Briefly Noted 209
The Physics of Christianity by frank j. tipler doubleday, 320 pages, $27.50 People who do research in…
Our Dip in the Rift Valley
We never heard what my mate heard descending to the Dead Sea by bus: a jet fighter…
November Letters
Living Religious Lives Permit me to add my own experience in support of “The Life and Death…
Conscience and Authority
Nothing is more common in life than a seeming tension between the freedom of individuals and the…
