Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

After Modernity, What?

Wilfred M. McClay

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

Gilbert Meilaender

In February of 1994, in what was its March issue, First Things published a statement on the…

Educating Father Abraham: The Meaning of Wife

Leon R. Kass

It is not exactly traditional to speak about the education of Abraham. Pious tales of the patriarch…

Life at the Intellectual Barricades

James Nuechterlein

“But why do you have to be so polemical?” It’s a not unfamiliar complaint (see, for example,…

Jungians and Gnostics

Jeffrey Burke Satinover

Heresies perish not with their authors, but like the river Arethusa, though they lose their currents in…

Learning from Sartre

John T. Mullen

Jean-Paul Sartre is not, to put it mildly, very high on the reading list of those seeking…

Why We Need Interreligious Polemics

Paul J. Griffiths

The intellectual life is essentially and constitutively agonistic. It progresses almost entirely by struggle, by challenge and…

For Luddite Humanism

David R. Carlin

Now that researchers at George Washington University Medical Center have split human embryos, thereby producing genetically identical…

Liberalism vs. Religious Freedom

Mark C. Henrie

Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases that Define the Debate over Church and State terry…

Hatred Under Ice?

Peter L. Berger

There is by now a well-established conventional view about the eruptions of ethnic hatred in Eastern Europe…

Cosmic Questions

John Farrell

Dreams of a Final Theory by steven weinberg pantheon, 338 pages, $25 In the second-to-last chapter of…

Buber Without Tears

Werner J. Dannhauser

The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue edited by nahum n. glatzer and paul mendes-flohr…

The Limits of Reconstruction

Lawrence Grossman

Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan by mel scult wayne state university…

Doing Christian Philosophy

Douglas Groothuis

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

Kathy Kersten

“RE-imagining,” a conference “by women for women and men,” marked the midpoint of the World Council of…