Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Against Eternal Youth
I’m a fan of old movies, the black-and-whites from the 1930s and 1940s, in part because of…
Sundial in the Rain
Patiently waiting for the sun to rise, / the dial seems more dutiful than wise: / the…
Robert Alter’s Fidelity
As the Italians say, traduttori, tradittori: translators are traitors. But the translator who shrugs and—cheerfully or resignedly—agrees…
Oz’s Israel
A Tale of Love and Darkness by amos oz harcourt, 544 pp, $26 Just over forty years…
A Label that Sticks
When I was in high school, the students fell into many different groups: preps, jocks, cheerleaders, punks,…
Parable of the Birds
They might be swallows. Barely to be seen, / they come through what the combine left behind...
A Jewish-Catholic Bioethics?
The term “Judeo-Christian” has entered our civic vocabulary for good reason. On many of the deepest issues…
Sex or Gender?
Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven E. Rhoads Encounter. 362 pp. $17.95 When Steven Rhoads published Taking…
Briefly Noted 11
Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World. By Wesley J. Smith. Encounter. 219 pp. $25.95. The Brave…
Unreasonable Observers
The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life by James Hitchcock Princeton University Press Vol. I: The…
Rome Diary
April 11: Remembering John Paul II There, on the catafalque only a few feet away, was what…
Offer Declined
The Future of Religion by Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo Columbia University Press, 112 pp. $24.50 The…
Gardens of Good and Evil
If you are old enough to have taken a Western Civilization course when it was still a…
When East is West
In an epilogue to his 1998 book, Awakening the Buddha Within, Lama Surya Das, a popular American…
Aegean Story
Briefly, newspapers recite / The facts about the fisherman / Who for two months, day and night...
