Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Religion’s Bad Press

Stanley Rothman

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good…

The Bible, Corrected

Robert M. Price

I Corinthians 6:9 Do not be deceived. Neither sexists, nor racists, nor ageists, nor looksists, nor ableists shall…

Why Churches Fail

Benton Johnson

A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation by wade clark roof harpercollins,…

The Splendor of Truth: A Symposium

Richard John Neuhaus, Russell Hittinger, L. Gregory Jones, David Burrell, Stanley Hauerwas, Robert P. George, and Hadley Arkes

Richard John Neuhaus In October 1993, Pope John Paul II issued his tenth encyclical, Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of…

Was Burke a Conservative?

Mark C. Henrie

The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke by conor cruise o’brien university…

The Origins of Morality

Gilbert Meilaender

The Moral Sense by james q. wilson free press, 300 pages, $22.95 We read books and recommend…

Justice Lite

Robert H. Bork

Political Liberalism by john rawls columbia university press, 401 pages, $29.95 Americans are justifiably anxious about the…

Human Rights in Vienna

James Finn

One can learn from unfortunate experiences. This truism applies in spades to the World Conference on Human…

The Ultra-Orthodox

Mark Miller

Piety and Power: The World of Jewish Fundamentalism by david landau hill & wang/fsg, 334 pages, $27.50…

Ritenuto: With My Daughter at the Lake

Hannah Strauss

The Falls Road northern light was fading gray: a sudden snowfall swept us eastward like a curtain…

Still Strangers

David G. Dalin

Jews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality by naomi w. cohen oxford university press, 300…

Speaking for the Common Good

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square Receiving no attention that we noticed in the general press, and slight attention in…

Moderately Religious, Desperately Sexual

George A. Tobin

The most surprising thing about The Janus Report on Human Sexuality (John Wiley & Sons) is that…

No Other Gods

Robert Louis Wilken

One of the lessons read at the Easter vigil is the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego…

Wishing People Dead

Nancy L. Harvey

Christine Busalacchi, a Missouri woman suffering from serious brain damage, died on the 8th of March, 1993.…