Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Persons and Rights
Who is My Neighbor? Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights by Thomas D. Williams The Catholic…
Orphans by Design
“Orphan” is one of those words that seems old-fashioned to modern ears”a word that evokes abject poverty…
JB: 11.22.05 There’s a set…
There’s a set of English town names that sound more like settings for P.G. Wodehouse comedies or…
Truth and Tolerance, Again
The notion that in matters of religion, but not only in matters of religion, one must make…
Augustinian Justice
Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine by robert dodaro cambridge university press, 262…
The New Orleans That Was
We remember the big ones. There was Carla in 1961, Camille in 1969, and Andrew in 1992.…
Lutherans Undefined
This August, at its 2005 Churchwide Assembly in Orlando, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) sidestepped…
The Monahans
They chose the countryside to make their tangled beds, the lissome girl beneath, the tousled boy astride.…
The battle of the polls goes…
The battle of the polls goes on and on: Pro-life up, pro-life down, pro-choice down, pro-choice up.…
Looking Down
There is a mute abandon in the prim And music in the silence of relief. There is…
Iraq and the Moral Judgement
Some readers have complained that First Things, and I in particular, have had a great deal to…
God & Bertie Wooster
Suppose that words were all you had. Suppose the great edifice of Western civilization had collapsed around…
Briefly Noted 12
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews. By Mark Mazower. Knopf. 528 pp. $35. In 1430,…
Good History, Bad Argument
Catholics and Contraception: An American History by Leslie Woodcock Tentler Cornell University Press 335 pp. $29.95 Leslie…
The “I” of Christ
Saint Cyril of Alexandria and the Christological Controversy by John McGuckin St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press 430 pp.…
