Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Episcopalian Preference

Philip Turner

On August 5, 2003, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), following initial action…

A Conservative Innovator

George McKenna

Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden Yale University Press. 615 pp. $35 Since Jonathan Edwards’…

Getting Along at the Altar

Richard John Neuhaus

In the course of a “self-interview” in his book Signposts in a Strange Land , Walker Percy…

Verses of the Soul That Pines to See God

Rhina P. Espaillat St. John of the Cross

Not in myself do I live but in such great hope, that I die of longing to…

Christ and Nothing

David Bentley Hart

As modern men and women—to the degree that we are modern—we believe in nothing. This is not…

Roots of Jihad

Robert Louis Wilken

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis Modern Library. 170 pp. $19.95…

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Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?. By Michael Ruse. Harvard University Press. 371 pp. $29.95.…

In Lieu of Memoirs

Richard John Neuhaus

I don’t know what to call this. It is certainly not, in any ordinary sense of the…

Ave Maria

Robert Greer Cohn

When we were born, our awestruck mother smiled. God gave her love to give the wondering child.…

Laodicea

Joseph Bottum

I burn for all good heresy in this ungodly town. If I had any hope to raise…

Fighting the Noonday Devil

R. R. Reno

For most of the modern era, Christian apologists have emphasized the role of pride as the primary…

The Ironies of American Power

Paul O. Carrese

Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan Knopf. 103…

June/July Letters

Various

Getting the Story Right Stephen M. Barr’s “Retelling the Story of Science” (March) provides an excellent framework…

Church Clothes

Richard C. Lambert

The chameleon charms with wizardry to escape his humble lizardry, blending in with vain show blizzardry, Chameleon…

Christian Unity: Beginning Again, Again

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square Call it a pause or a hiatus or a bump in the road or…