Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
It’s the Theology, Stupid
What went wrong, and when, and why? Father Robert W. Crooker of the University of St. Thomas…
The Persistence of the Catholic Moment
In 1987, while I was still a Lutheran, I published a book titled The Catholic Moment: The…
Lincoln on Judicial Despotism
After the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ordering the desegregation of…
The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace Bushnell
The name of Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) was so well known in nineteenth-century America that when residents of…
Letters—February 2003
I’m sure we are all pleased that the Linkers have been blessed with a son, as Damon…
An Unnecessary Evil
When William Wilberforce rose in Parliament on the evening of May 11, 1789 to give his maiden…
Boston and Other Bishops
Who brought down the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston? A survey of print and broadcast media around the…
The Virtue of Hate
In his classic Holocaust text, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal recounts the following experience. As a concentration camp prisoner,…
Moral Clarity in a Time of War
In Book Three of Tolstoy’s epic, War and Peace, the hero, Pierre Bezukhov, arrives at the battlefield…
St. Peter’s Square
The great bell tolls midnight stirring echoes: emperors, martyrs, prophets in chains. Above Rome’s Seven Hills life…
In the Beginning Was the Word
launching liberalism: on lockean political philosophy by michael zuckert university press of kansas, 392 pages, $29.95 Paraphrasing…
Letters—January 2003
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Zelman: The Court Gets It Right
Several months on, we can begin to appreciate the full importance of the Supreme Court’s June 27,…
A Grammar of the Self
You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves whether they…
The Bishops in Charge
“At last.” I breathed a sigh of gratitude upon my first reading of Bishop Wilton Gregory’s presidential…
