Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
God, Man, and H. L. Mencken
Mencken: A Lifeby fred hobsonrandom house, 650 pages, $35 H. L. Mencken, My Life as Author and…
The Challenge of the Catechism
I The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the boldest challenge yet offered to the cultural relativism…
Justifying God’s Ways
Evil and the Evidence for God: The Challenge of John Hick’s Theodicy by r. douglass geivett afterword…
The Religious Right as Terrible Threat, Utter Irrelevance, or Something Else
The cover of the New Republic picture this big thick book titled The Constitution of the United…
Killing Abortionists: A Symposium
Paul J. Hill, convicted of killing an abortionist and his security guard in Pensacola, Florida, has advanced…
Christianity and the West
The importance of Christianity in the formation of Western civilization can hardly be denied. That importance is…
Re-Viewing Vatican II
George Lindbeck, the distinguished Lutheran theologian, served from 1962 through 1965 as one of sixty “Delegated Observers”…
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Fatherhood
My theme is the education of the patriarch Abraham, Father of Judaism, father of Christianity, father of…
After Modernity, What?
Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture by gene edward veith, jr. crossway, 234…
On Bringing One’s Life to a Point
In February of 1994, in what was its March issue, First Things published a statement on the…
Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife
It is not exactly traditional to speak about the education of Abraham. Pious tales of the patriarch…
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…
