Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Barbara Pym’s Affectionate Irony
By the time I came of reading age—old enough to pass the portals of the library’s “youth…
The Book of Splendor
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1 translated by Daniel C. Matt Stanford University Press, 584 pages, $49.95.…
Confessing Mysticism
The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions by John Peter Kenney Routledge, 160 pages, $115. FOR…
Correspondence
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
Those sixteen words have taken a terrible beating in the past fifty years. For most of our…
Rose: Jenkins, Regensburg, and Balthasar
It was standing-room-only on Monday night when Philip Jenkins delivered the annual Erasmus Lecture at the Union…
Anderson: The Family vs. the State
Last month, Britain’s Telegraph ran stories telling of two elderly sisters who brought the British government before…
George: No Tired Meme
Over at the Mirror of Justice website, law professor Eduardo Peñalver keeps reasserting his arguments for why…
RJN: More on Harper
We’ve been having this little back and forth on whether Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, is…
Joseph
Do I displease you, Brothers Oh the dictate of these dreams Is not mine; nor what is…
Sullivan’s Travels
The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, and How to Get It Back by Andrew Sullivan. HarperCollins,…
Briefly Noted 173
The Conservative Poets: A Contemporary Anthology. edited by William Baer. Evansville Univ. Press, 182 pages, $20. To…
Miller: Well-Ordered Means and Ends Revisited
Eduardo Moisés Peñalver, who teaches at Cornell, argues in Commonweal that the genuinely Catholic vote this fall…
RJN: Artificial Happiness
No, not that Ronald Dworkin, the legal philosopher at New York University. This Ronald Dworkin is a…
Bonhoeffer Today
Totalitarian movements, such as National Socialism, seek to reorganize the entirety of human life. Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer,…
