Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Forgiveness & the Death Penalty
On February 24, the State of Texas executed Betty Lou Beets, age sixty-two, for the murder of…
Believing in the Word
The recent death of Catholic author Andre Dubus represents a loss to anyone interested in the fate…
Lincoln, Nietzsche, and the Constitution
There was some puzzlement among John Stuart Mill’s contemporaries that he should publish his tract On Liberty,…
Remembering the Rescuers
In a no“holds“barred article, “Auschwitz and the Professors,” published in the June 1998 issue of Commentary ,…
Poetry
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 102 (April 2000): 10, 23, 38, 43, 49. Chowkiakow: The River (September…
A History of the Popes, 1830–1914
A History of the Popes, 1830-1914 by owen chadwick oxford university press, 626 pages, $52.56 A century…
Letters—April 2000
Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 102 (April 2000): 2-8. Are Women Inferior? It appears that Marie I.…
Is Mormonism Christian?
The Public Square That is not the only interesting question, but it is probably the most important.…
The Death of Medicine in Nazi Germany
Death of Medicine in Nazi Germany: Dermatology and Dermatopathology Under the Swastika by wolfgang weyers madison books,…
Briefly Noted 21
A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition by john rawls belknap/harvard university press, 538 pages, $77.20 Among academics,…
“Father, Forgive Them”
The first word from the cross: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Christians…
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…
