Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
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…
Letters—October 2007
Getting Immigration Right Peter C. Meilaender’s thoughts on immigration policy (“Immigration: Citizens & Strangers,” May) are careful,…
God and Evolution
During the second half of the nineteenth century, it became common to speak of a war between…
The Really Poor
The Really Poor There is a very big and very important argument underway about what is to…
God & the Second Sex
Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge Nelson, 224 pages, $14.99…
Canadian-Americans, The Civil War, Hillary Clinton and a Strange New Respect for Religion
It’s an odd thing about us transplanted Canadians. In truth, most of my siblings and I (there…
Theology and Civil Authority in Time of War
Two fine recent articles by evangelical scholars serve to highlight a problem I have mentioned before in…
Women and the Catholic Priesthood
In May 1994, Pope John Paul II issued his apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis. It is, as far…
Renewing the Church, Converting the World
I’d like to start with a proposition. Here it is: To be a Christian is to believe…
