Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
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,…
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…
