Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Jane Austen, Public Theologian
To call Jane Austen a public theologian is counterintuitive for two reasons: she does not seem much…
Sheer Extravagant Violence
Taras Bulbaby Nikolai Gogol, translated by Peter ConstantineModern Library. 11 pp. $17.95. Where Taras Bulba should be…
The Culture Wars Go International
The defenders of judicial activism, properly understood as the judicial usurpation of politics, count on wearing down…
Martin Marty’s Martin Luther
We can be grateful that an editor of Viking’s Penguin Lives suggested that the series should include…
2003 December Letters
Questions of Reform In “True and False Reform.” (September), Avery Cardinal Dulles displays his usual clarity and…
Briefly Noted 58
Style and Faith: Essays. By Geoffrey Hill. Counterpoint. 218 pp. $25. This slim but dense collection of…
The Superficial in Pursuit of the Superficial
The Public Square Alan Wolfe is director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life…
Retelling Genesis
And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years…
The Risen Christ
The Resurrection of the Son of God by n. t. wright. fortress. 740 pp. $39 The past…
Scandal, Prayer, and Penance
When my family in Massachusetts first told me the news of priests in Boston being accused of…
What to Do With Beauty and Gratitude
I go back on occasion to The Stories of John Cheever and am never disappointed. I know…
The Meanings of Apostolic
The future of ecumenism understood as the quest for visible unity among Christians and their ecclesial communities…
To Christ on the Cross
I am not moved to love you, Lord, to gain the heaven you have promised in return.…
The Episcopalian Preference
On August 5, 2003, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), following initial action…
Getting Along at the Altar
In the course of a “self-interview” in his book Signposts in a Strange Land , Walker Percy…
