Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Public Morality, Public Reason
A contest of worldviews in our time pits devout Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and other believers against secularist…
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…
