Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Roland Redivivus
Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love) by Matteo Maria Boiardo translated by Charles Stanley Ross Parlor. 717 pp.…
Letters—February 2005
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…
Letters—January 2005
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,…
