Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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,…
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…
