Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Are the Gospels Mythical?
From the earliest days of Christianity, the Gospels’ resemblance to certain myths has been used as an…
The Domesticated Nietzsche
Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist by peter berkowitz harvard university press, 313 pages, $35 A consensus…
Lost in the Movies
Last year I saw two truly vile movies, Pulp Fiction and Kids. The first turned my stomach.…
Aquinas and the Heretics
Some time ago, I wrote an essay claiming St. Thomas as the first Whig, one of the…
The Western Mind of Radical Islam
Fat’hi ash-Shiqaqi, a well-educated young Palestinian living in Damascus, recently boasted of his familiarity with European literature.…
Retuning the Psalms
The Psalter translated from the hebrew by the international commission on english in the liturgy. training publications,…
Living Under Authority
Chinese astronomers Hi and Ho were put to death for failing to foretell the solar eclipse of…
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…
