Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
March Letters 71
A Moral Moment Missed? Richard John Neuhaus’ “Internationalisms” (Public Square, December 2004) fails to discuss the current…
Briefly Noted 8
An Examined Faith: The Grace of Self-Doubt By James M. Gustafson Fortress. 119 pp. $15 paper. America’s…
The Patriarchal Bargain
Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands by W. Bradford Wilcox University of Chicago…
Secularization Doesn’t Just Happen
“As society became more modern, it became more secular.” That sentence has about it a certain “of…
To Fast Again
The renewal inaugurated by the Second Vatican Council sprang in large part from the liberating discovery of…
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…
Serenading the Neighbors
Little Albert has a way of driving all the neighbors mad” a trait, his mother likes to…
