Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Life Unworthy of Life
A Concise History of Euthanasia by Ian Dowbiggin. Rowan and Littlefield, 176 pages, $22.95 To read Ian…
Briefly Noted 85
A Little History of the World. by E.H. Gombrich. Yale Univ. Press, 284 pages, $25. In 1935,…
Poetry
Nothing New Prophets foretell And priests atone And where men dwell Their works are known How good…
The Orthodox Imperative
The word orthodox derives from the Greek word orthodoxía, which standard dictionaries translate as “right opinion.” Aristotle…
RJN: 6.7.06 It is getting the attention…
It is getting the attention it deserves in avowedly conservative circles, but Ramesh Ponnuru’s fine book The…
SB: 6.02.06 The Rev. George Coyne…
The Rev. George Coyne, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory, has a penchant for theologically risqué statements.…
Bonhoeffer Today
We have been listening to Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the centenary of his birth in 1906. Bonhoeffer’s time…
Unchurching
Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor. HarperSanFrancisco. 224 pp. $23.95. There are really two books here. One…
Dechristianizing America
If you’re not a Christian and not about to become a Christian, but you’re a public intellectual…
Jarring Sects
A Jealous God: Science’s Crusade Against Religion by Pamela Winnick. Nelson Current. 368 pp. $25.99. Is science…
Faust in the USSR
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin. Putnam. 354 pp. $24.95. Olga Grushin, a young Russian-born…
Principled Immigration
Not for the first time, the world finds itself in an age of great movements of peoples.…
Our Bodies, Ourselves
Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto by simon youngprometheus, 417 pages, $28 The Singularity is Near: When Humans…
Jews and the World to Come
n 2004, on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” correspondent Nina Totenberg declared, “Jews do not believe in…
The Churches of Earthly Power
Michael Burleigh’s study of European religion and politics requires us to imagine a very different Europe than…
