Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters—January 2007
The Swallows of Capistrano I am grateful for Joseph Bottum’s “When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano:…
To a Lady Contemplating Mischief
Encompassed at all corners by such fine / a cadre of companions, knights, and flags / as…
JB: Duke University Rape Case
In response to last week’s news that the Durham prosecutor has finally dropped the rape charges against…
Linton: Messiahs for This Christmas
Which Messiah ? It’s not a theological question; it’s a question about what to listen to when…
RJN: A Few Items …
Herewith a few items, definitely not in order of importance: “Group invites world to come together for…
Bottum: Housekeeping
If you look over at the top of the lefthand column, here at the First Things website,…
JB: A Christmas Carol Revisited
Another in our series of Christmas Reruns ¯writings on the season from our authors through the years.…
Bottum: PS Christmases Past
Another in our series of Christmas Reruns ¯ writings on the season from our authors through the…
Ruiz: Jesus, Manly Man
“Manliness is next to godliness,” ran the Los Angeles Times headline on December 7. The article examines…
Bottum: The Pius War Revisited
Pius XII is back in the news, this time in reports that the man who would later…
Novak: In Praise of Jeane Kirkpatrick
Aristotle wrote that the criterion of good moral action is not a principle or a law so…
Poetry
God in His mercy gave / the heavens as a clock / to sailors he would save.Driven…
The Occidental Difference
What Is the West? by Philippe Nemo Duquesne University Press, 155 pages, $18.95 Back in the late…
Balthasar, Hell, and Heresy: An Exchange
Alyssa Lyra Pitstick Hans Urs von Balthasar once keenly observed what makes someone an ecclesial theologian: “It…
Briefly Noted 176
Ambrose’s Patriarchs: Ethics for the Common Man by Marcia L. Colish University of Notre Dame Press, 208…
