Theology

In about March or April of 1968 (is it really so many years ago?), I received a…

Cultural studies, postcolonialism, and postmodernity have so completely corrupted higher education that one wonders if their infiltration…

Talk about revolutions and semi-revolutionary changes in the Catholic Church has been a commonplace since the Second…

Christianity and the Secular by Robert A. Markus. University of Notre Dame Press, 99 pages, $15. In…

All ecclesiastical revolutions eventually run out of steam. New concerns emerge, and different leaders come to the…

A Concise History of Euthanasia by Ian Dowbiggin. Rowan and Littlefield, 176 pages, $22.95 To read Ian…

A Little History of the World. by E.H. Gombrich. Yale Univ. Press, 284 pages, $25. In 1935,…

Nothing New Prophets foretell And priests atone And where men dwell Their works are known How good…

The word orthodox derives from the Greek word orthodoxía, which standard dictionaries translate as “right opinion.” Aristotle…

It is getting the attention it deserves in avowedly conservative circles, but Ramesh Ponnuru’s fine book The…

The Rev. George Coyne, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory, has a penchant for theologically risqué statements.…

We have been listening to Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the centenary of his birth in 1906. Bonhoeffer’s time…

Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor. HarperSanFrancisco. 224 pp. $23.95. There are really two books here. One…

If you’re not a Christian and not about to become a Christian, but you’re a public intellectual…

A Jealous God: Science’s Crusade Against Religion by Pamela Winnick. Nelson Current. 368 pp. $25.99. Is science…