Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Can We Have a Story?
Some time ago I published in this journal an essay on “How the World Lost Its Story”…
Forget the Bilderbergers
Who will guard the guardians? That question, variously expressed, is among the oldest in political theory and…
Poetry
The Sum of the Insignificant Another molecule, this one deliberate and in the act of forming water.…
The Church and the City
Since the official validation of Christianity in the fourth century, ecclesiastical leaders have built places of worship…
The Radical Orthodoxy Project
Novelty provides cheap thrills, and a student of Christian theology is rightly skeptical of agendas and programs…
Global Eco-Logic
“Witches Heal.” “The Goddess is Alive and Magic is Afoot.” A picture of Earth with the enjoinder,…
Donne Undone
However much traditional standards are leveled in our late democratic society, American theater will persist in challenging…
What’s News?
Some years ago, in October 1991, we published C. John Sommerville’s “How the News Makes Us Dumb,”…
What Can We Reasonably Hope For?
It is of course the case that only God knows what will happen in the next century…
The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War
The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War by hilton…
The Holy Feminine
Catherine of Siena by giuliana cavallini, o.p. continuum, 292 pages, $39.28 The Flowing Light of the Godhead…
What Aquinas Really Said About Women
In several passages in the Summa Theologiae and elsewhere, Thomas Aquinas asserts that the inferiority of women…
John Paul II and the Crisis of Humanism
As Time and other premillennial makers-of-lists have discovered in recent months, there is no lack of candidates…
Metaphysics Matters
In Defense of Natural Law by robert p. george clarendon/oxford university press, 343 pages, $65 In his…
The (Mis)Guided Dream of Graham Greene
Graham Greene was a great novelist of a special kind. Unlike many literary practitioners in this century,…
