Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Better Concept of Freedom
On October 31, 1958, Isaiah Berlin gave his inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political…
Orthodoxy and “Parallel Monologues”
I don’t know how many of our subscribers are Orthodox Christians. But from those who are, we…
Catholic Doctrine and Religious Freedom
Avery Cardinal Dulles claims that on the question of religious freedom the difference between the nineteenth“century popes…
The Uses of Anger
I’m angry, and I have been ever since I watched a 767 slam into the North Tower…
A Lesson in Hermeneutics
In Kenya, vervet monkeys take the ground Until a sentry gives a chattering bark, Which in the…
On Giving Blood to the Red Cross
Flow, blood; you are not me but I have known your intercourse since the crimson dawn of…
A Curious Encounter with a Philosopher from Nowhere
One could hardly imagine a more civilized setting. A crisply sunny November afternoon at Colgate University, its…
The Burdens of Language
To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays By Czeslaw Milosz Edited by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G.…
The End of Magic
Of a fair evening in the mythical but true world of Middle Earth, towards the end of…
Jerusalem Artichoke
It’s not , though: Anyone can tell you this is absolutely not an artichoke. And the Jerusalem…
January Letters 39
War and Christian Doctrine No doubt every reader of Darrell Cole’s “Good Wars” (October 2001) was struck, as…
Faith Seeking Explanation
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought By Pascal Boyer Basic. 375 pp. $27.50 Pascal Boyer…
September 2001
We meet our griefs again when work is through and do with words what little words can…
Religious Freedom: Innovation and Development
According to John Henry Newman, whose two hundredth birthday we celebrated in February 2001, Christianity came into…
Poetry
The neighborhood changed the day the dead moved in. The rich barred their gates, the reputable fled.…
