Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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 Hermeneutics of Love
The suspicion did cross my mind that Alan Jacobs is not playing fair. If, as he has…
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.…
Letters—June/July 2002
I am moved to respond to the opinion piece by Professor Robert Benne (“ Reinventing Sexual Ethics,”…
The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity
Historians of American religion have been congratulating themselves of late on the booming state of scholarship in…
The Case for “Discrimination”
I’m a long-time Democrat. In 1972, I organized a group called “Evangelicals for McGovern/Shriver” and helped McGovern…
Morality in the Absence of a Story
Some while back, Robert Jenson wrote “How the World Lost its Story“ (FT, October 1993), and it…
Jihad and Just War
In February 1998, long before the September 11 terrorist attacks on America, Osama bin Laden and four…