Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
How to Think About Globalization
Soon after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last September, the Economist published…
The Meanings of Marriage
“The apt and cheerful conversation of man with woman is the chief and noblest purpose of marriage,”…
Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography
While describing the Rawlsian-liberal idea of “the unencumbered self” and “the procedural republic” in Democracy’s Discontents (1994),…
Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
Martha C. Nussbaum is a universalist feminist, which makes her something of an anomaly in the academy…
Political Blasphemy
It lasted but a moment, but while it lasted it was political theater to be relished. The…
A New Religious America
In recent years, the decade of the 1960s has become a popular subject for courses in university…
Newman on the Personal
There immediately follows a piece of vintage Newmanian satire. He imagines the division of mind that is…
Your Word Is Truth
In the spring of 1994, a group of Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants issued a much-discussed statement,…
Scandal Time III
So, will there be further installments of this running commentary, Scandal Time IV through XIV, ad infinitum?…
The Limits of Theory
While his professional work is primarily in elementary particle physics, Steven Weinberg became widely known to the…
The Very American Stanley Hauerwas
David Tracy was my advisor at the University of Chicago Divinity School at the time he was…
The Second Tablet Project
assurance which transcends what human reason can find out on its own—no human being dares to face…
Goldhagen v. Pius XII
Tendentious attacks on Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) are nothing new. Indeed, they have become commonplace. Yet…
Scandal Time (Continued)
Don’t be fooled by the parentheses. “Continued” is the operative word. As in going on and on.…
Lutherans and Homosexuality
I am moved to respond to the opinion piece by Professor Robert Benne (“ Reinventing Sexual Ethics,”…
