Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Jewish Power, the “Catholic Right,” and the Meeting of Opposites
Walter Benjamin’s is a name to be conjured with in the academic disciplines where “theory” is king.…
Saving Lost Languages
This is a story¯a creation myth from the Tofa: In the very beginning there were no people,…
The UCC’s Ethical Suicide Parlor
On September 18, United Church of Christ minister Kristi Denham announced that a new organization of clergy…
Parsing Abortion Statistics and the Law
The report made headlines across the globe, but even those generally sympathetic to its conclusions acknowledged the…
Who Is John Galt? And Does Anyone Care Anymore?
Tomorrow, October 12, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged .…
The November Issue of First Things Has Arrived
“Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran,” writes Alan Jacobs in the new issue…
God Cannot Be Understood, Only Adored
Whatever one thinks about whether it is possible for Christian theology to be systematic—and there are good…
A New Song from the Old World
Imagine a book on Renaissance art without any pictures. And I don’t mean without illustrations, I mean…
Saving Veronica
On a trip to Crete last March to research onetime Venetian colonies, our class of twelve wandered…
Does Doubt Belong to Faith?
The recent publication of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., with its frank…
First Things Issues (So to Speak)
A longtime subscriber has more than a decade of past issues of First Things ¯but lacks the…
God & the Second Sex
Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge Nelson, 224 pages, $14.99…
Briefly Noted 208
The Politics of Abortion by Anne Hendershott Encounter, 190 pages, $25 To understand the modern American abortion…
Evangelical Amnesia
In a well-known 1922 sermon, Harry Emerson Fosdick threw down the gauntlet to fundamentalism when he demanded…
A Complaint of the Times
So much regulation and so few lives saved, So much loud music and so little melody, So…
