Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Texts Have Consequences
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture – New Testament II: Mark edited by thomas c. oden and christopher…
The Mozart Effect
It can cure backache. And asthma. And obesity, writer’s block, alcoholism, schizophrenia, prejudice, heart disease, drug addiction,…
A Third Way?
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by edward…
How the Court Became Supreme
The past half-century has witnessed the rise to prominence of a constitutional theory that gives the U.S.…
The Good Casuist
The Way of the Lord Jesus, Vol. 3: Difficult Moral Questions by germain grisez franciscan, 927 pages,…
What Aquinas Never Said About Women
If the first casualty of war is the unwelcome truth, the first tool of the discontented is…
