Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
To Fast Again
The renewal inaugurated by the Second Vatican Council sprang in large part from the liberating discovery of…
Serenading the Neighbors
Little Albert has a way of driving all the neighbors mad” a trait, his mother likes to…
Talking to Lord Newborough
(Lt. William Charles Wynn, 1873-1916, 4th Baron Newborough, whose grave overlooks the Vale of Ffestiniog in North…
When Worlds Collide
Snow by Orhan Pamuk Knopf. 426 pp. $26. Two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11,…
Roland Redivivus
Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love) by Matteo Maria Boiardo translated by Charles Stanley Ross Parlor. 717 pp.…
February Letters 70
Science and Climate Change I am writing to express my disappointment with Thomas Sieger Derr’s “Strange Science”…
Off at College
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 646 pp. $28.95 When the heroine…
Why The Jews Did or Did Not Reject Jesus
It’s coming on ten years since Thomas Cahill published How the Irish Saved Civilization. The book gave…
Maritain’s True Humanism
In the course of his long life, French philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) adopted a series of different…
The Bad Divorce
We’re Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorceby constance ahrons harpercollins 304 pages $24.95…
Dualistic Delusions
Disputes about metaphysical issues rarely make the newspapers. The ancient argument about the nature and identity of…
January Letters 69
Canadian Conservatives? Raymond J. de Souza’s “Unsettling Canada” (October 2004) contains solid hints about why social conservatives…
The Laughter of the Philosophers
The Humor of Kierkegaardby thomas c. odenprinceton university press, 328 pp. $16.95 paper My favorite “whimsical” anecdote…
Just War, As It Was and Is
The just war tradition came into being during the Middle Ages as a way of thinking about…
The Deist Minimum
As Christianity spread throughout the Greco-Roman world, it became apparent that the biblical doctrines concerning God, morality,…
