Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

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Ambrose’s Patriarchs: Ethics for the Common Man by Marcia L. Colish University of Notre Dame Press, 208…

Arkes: The Commerce Clause Revisited

Hadley Arkes

In the forthcoming January issue of First Things , I have an analysis of the oral arguments…

Anderson: What Went Right on Tuesday

Ryan T. Anderson

I’m no expert when it comes to analysis of political trends, party politics, or electoral strategy. But…

Mathewes-Green: Thoughts on Haggard

Frederica Mathewes-Green

I was in Denver for about a hundred minutes this weekend. I hadn’t planned it, but when…

RJN: Europe, the Founders, and the Archdiocese of New York

Richard John Neuhaus

Jewcentricity is a word that will probably not catch on, but Adam Garfinkle employs it to good…

RJN: The Debates Rage

Richard John Neuhaus

You will not be surprised to learn that I am solidly on Ross Douthat’s side in his…

Bottum: On Robertson Davies

Joseph Bottum

Is it just my imagination or has Robertson Davies faded considerably over the past decade? I was…

Anderson: Marriage Ruling in New Jersey

Ryan T. Anderson

Yesterday’s Lewis v. Harris ruling by the New Jersey State Supreme Court is truly unfortunate. In a…

Public Morality, Public Reason

Robert P. George

A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist…

Barbara Pym’s Affectionate Irony

Betty Smartt Carter

By the time I came of reading age—old enough to pass the portals of the library’s “youth…

The Book of Splendor

Laurance Wieder

The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1 translated by Daniel C. Matt Stanford University Press, 584 pages, $49.95.…

Confessing Mysticism

Robert Louis Wilken

The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions by John Peter Kenney Routledge, 160 pages, $115. FOR…

Correspondence

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Fostering Care I read with great interest Gregory Popcak’s “Misplacing Children” (June/July). As the father of four…

RJN: The Times and the Church

Richard John Neuhaus

Those sixteen words have taken a terrible beating in the past fifty years. For most of our…

Rose: Jenkins, Regensburg, and Balthasar

John Rose

It was standing-room-only on Monday night when Philip Jenkins delivered the annual Erasmus Lecture at the Union…