Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Liberated Lost
The Public Square The idea that religion is the heart of culture and culture is the form…
Sacred Fanfares
The international broadcast of the opening of Scotland’s new parliament in July 1999 gave the world more…
Technicians of Learning
Modern institutions talk about themselves. When a corporation refashions itself—undergoes a complete makeover not merely to look…
Rights, Animal and Human
Last year Harvard Law School offered its first“ever course on animal rights. This is good news for…
Pius XII as Scapegoat
From the beginning of his papacy in 1939 until well after his death in 1958, Pope Pius…
Life in the Little Apple
My wife and I have a commuter marriage: she lives and works in Valparaiso, Indiana, and I…
Seminary Sanity
When you start out at seminary with an eye toward entering the ministry, the first thing they…
Israel and the Nations
Church and Israel After Christendom: The Politics of Election by scott bader-saye wipf and stock, 202 pages,…
Correspondence
Mormons and (Other?) Christians Richard John Neuhaus’ essay “Is Mormonism Christian?” (March) is disappointing. As a first…
Forgive Us Our Trespasses…
Early returns tend to vindicate, at least in part, the worries of cardinals and others when John…
J. S. Bach in Japan
Twenty-five years ago when there was still a Communist East Germany, I interviewed several boys from Leipzig’s…
The Politics of the Id
My first political epiphany came at the movies. I was about thirteen years old, and in those…
Poetry
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 104 (June/July 2000): 12, 14, 34, 44, 52. The Charmed Life This…
Suicide and the Alienated Life
Walter Benjamin once said that authors should write the article or book they looked for in the…
By the Blood of His Cross
The Public Square There is this odd thing that all the social science data agree that the…
