Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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.…
Stem Cells and Babies
Positions on human embryonic stem-cell research tend to fall into two camps: Either anything goes, or nothing…
Against Eternal Youth
I’m a fan of old movies, the black-and-whites from the 1930s and 1940s, in part because of…
Sundial in the Rain
Patiently waiting for the sun to rise, the dial seems more dutiful than wise: the sun, already…
Robert Alter’s Fidelity
As the Italians say, traduttori, tradittori: translators are traitors. But the translator who shrugs and—cheerfully or resignedly—agrees…
Oz’s Israel
A Tale of Love and Darkness by amos oz harcourt, 544 pp, $26 Just over forty years…
A Label that Sticks
When I was in high school, the students fell into many different groups: preps, jocks, cheerleaders, punks,…
Parable of the Birds
They might be swallows. Barely to be seen, they come through what the combine left behind, dispersed,…
A Jewish-Catholic Bioethics?
The term “Judeo-Christian” has entered our civic vocabulary for good reason. On many of the deepest issues…
Sex or Gender?
Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven E. Rhoads Encounter. 362 pp. $17.95 When Steven Rhoads published Taking…
