Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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,…
Anglicanism Runs Aground
The good ship Anglican, as Archbishop Robin Eames acknowledges in his preface to the Windsor Report, appears…
Saving the Pledge
What can you do when the Supreme Court is wrong? Amend the Constitution? It’s nearly impossible. Appoint…
The Episcopal Priest Cleans Out His Office
After the years of tear-drying and tissue-passing, the closed-door conferences above reproach and beyond remembrance, he packs…
The Old Country
In that darkness there could be no hope” Not merely light withdrawn but light refused. The ashen…
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity
During the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius in the middle of the second century, an unnamed…
The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review
The Constitution of the United States of America is a majestic old document, but in our age…
Internationalisms, etc.
Among the most oft-quoted statements on American foreign policy is that of John Quincy Adams in 1821:…
Embryology: Inconvenient Facts
In the ongoing debate about cloning human embryos for research, and about destroying them in order to…
Political Theologies
From time to time a writer cuts through confusing debates and polemics to expose the fundamental form…
The Unsilent Pope
Inside the Vatican of Pius XII: The Memoir of an American Diplomat During World War II By…
You Are Peter: An Orthodox Theologian’s Reflection on the Exercise of Papal Primacy.
You Are Peter: An Orthodox Theologian’s Reflection on the Exercise of Papal Primacy By Olivier Clément, translated…
