Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Life at the Intellectual Barricades
“But why do you have to be so polemical?” It’s a not unfamiliar complaint (see, for example,…
Jungians and Gnostics
Heresies perish not with their authors, but like the river Arethusa, though they lose their currents in…
Learning from Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre is not, to put it mildly, very high on the reading list of those seeking…
Why We Need Interreligious Polemics
The intellectual life is essentially and constitutively agonistic. It progresses almost entirely by struggle, by challenge and…
For Luddite Humanism
Now that researchers at George Washington University Medical Center have split human embryos, thereby producing genetically identical…
Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom
Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases that Define the Debate over Church and State terry…
Hatred Under Ice?
There is by now a well-established conventional view about the eruptions of ethnic hatred in Eastern Europe…
Cosmic Questions
Dreams of a Final Theory by steven weinberg pantheon, 338 pages, $25 In the second-to-last chapter of…
Buber Without Tears
The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue edited by nahum n. glatzer and paul mendes-flohr…
The Limits of Reconstruction
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan by mel scult wayne state university…
Doing Christian Philosophy
Reasoned Faith edited by Eleanor Stump echo point books & media, $34.95 A decade ago, the well-respected…
A New Heaven and a New Earth
“RE-imagining,” a conference “by women for women and men,” marked the midpoint of the World Council of…
Evil: Back in Bad Company
Most Christian thinkers have viewed evil as a privation, a derivative reality, like a shadow. Shadows are…
The Homosexual Movement
I. The New Thing Homosexual behavior is a phenomenon with a long history, to which there have…
Poland: Reflections on a New World
For a national capital, Warsaw is very new and, finally, unconvincing as a city. After World War…
