Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Attacking the Tabernacle
For more than two decades, Psalm 139:13 has served as a slogan for the anti-abortion movement, adorning…
Return of the Gods
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was waste and void;…
Abraham Lincoln & the Last Best Hope
The beginning of the ninth century of the millennium now almost past was promising enough. The Congress of…
Are We Spiritual Machines?
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 96 (October 1999): 25-31. For two hundred years materialist philosophers have argued…
A Clash of Orthodoxies
A few years ago, the eminent Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington published in Foreign Affairs a widely…
Pascal: The First Modern Christian
As a way of dividing up history into discrete, manageable wholes, the habit of clustering events according…
The Elliptical Exodus
The Hidden Book in the Bible by richard elliott friedman harpercollins, 402 pages, $10.67 I have used…
Thomas More for Our Season
The continuing contemporary interest in Thomas More (1478–1535) is hardly to be accounted for by popular fascination…
Calvin and the Christian Calling
The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous change in Western Europe. The need for some kind…
Letter from Budapest
Murderous cruise missiles crash into factories, office buildings, farm houses, all just across the border in Serbia,…
The (Very) Last Word
The Last Word by thomas nagel oxford university press, 147 pages, $27.24 How refreshing and intellectually stimulating…
The Archetypes in the Machine
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by erik davis harmony, 368 pages, $18.19…
Letter from Moscow
Visitors from the West are often surprised to learn how many historic Catholic churches are scattered about…
Impoverished Theology
The Character of God: Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantism by thomas e. jenkins oxford,…
Catholics, Protestants, and Contraception
It has become a commonplace that religious controversy today occurs more often across church boundaries than between…
