Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Why Dictators Fear Artists
Although it has become a somewhat sappy and romanticized notion, the individual artist really does pose a…
Secularist Attacks on the Catholic Church in Britain
One might have expected the Catholic Church in Great Britain to enter a cosy relationship with the…
The First Openly Muslim Priest
The day before the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops voted to confirm the church’s first openly gay…
Romney’s Pornography Dilemma
The headline in the New York Times reads ” Romney Criticized for Hotel Pornography ,” which makes…
The Jewishness of the Roman Rite
Summorum Pontificum , the motu proprio whereby the pope grants a universal indult for the celebration of…
The Neo-Blanshardites vs. the Evangelicals
Recently, when the Supreme Court declined to strike down as unconstitutional a federal law prohibiting the killing…
Illegal Immigration and Our Corruption
With the failure of the immigration bill still causing murmurs across the nation, the topic of immigration,…
A Hatchet Job
We have come to rely on Alan Wolfe as just the sort of “expert” on religion who…
The Aug-Sept Issue of First Things Is Online!
Another day, another dollar. Well, actually, another month, another issue of First Things . And the cost…
The Pope’s Liturgical Liberalism
One of the more deft moves in Benedict’s apostolic letter motu proprio , titled ” Summorum Pontificum…
In Defense of Human Exceptionalism
Tearing humans off the pedestal of exceptionalism is all the rage today among academics, philosophers, and other…
Stop Reading This Now
What are you doing looking here on the Fourth of July? Go away. Set off some firecrackers.…
The Myth of the Falwell Insurgency
Although Jerry Falwell’s legacy will remain a contentious issue for some time to come, partisans on all…
The Relevance of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
“Obscure” hardly begins to describe the obscurity of the German-American thinker Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888¯1973). Though never a…
Rejoinder to Miller’s Response
Robert T. Miller is one of my favorite First Things contributors. So it is indeed an honor…
