Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Sin, Theodicy & Politics
It is a pleasure to recommend to readers Father Edward Oakes’ masterful essay on original sin elsewhere…
Questioning Everything?
Ever since Galileo, the received wisdom has held that an “expert” is somebody who “thinks scientifically,” as…
Original Sin: A Disputation
No doctrine inside the precincts of the Christian Church is received with greater reserve and hesitation, even…
Popes for All Seasons
God’s Representatives: The Eight Twentieth-century Popes by james bentleyconstable. 200 pages, £16.95 . Saints and Sinners: A History…
In Defense of Disbelief
A healthy dose of Christian disbelief or “holy skepticism” would serve as a much-needed antidote to the…
The New Populism
The Great Betrayal by patrick j. buchanan little, brown. 384 pp. $22.95 Readers of a certain age…
Making the Wager
God: The Evidence. The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World By Patrick Glynn Prima.…
Babel Undone
A few decades ago I published a short piece in Christianity Today about something I had observed on a…
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
On March 16, 1998, the Holy See released a long-awaited statement on the Church and the Holocaust,…
What a Woman Ought to Think
This is the “hiring season” for those of us in academia, the time of year when faculty…
John Paul II on the American Experiment
In receiving the credentials of the Honorable Lindy Boggs as Ambassador to the Holy See on December…
The Ways We Worship
One weekend in that tumultuous year 1968 I was on call at a parish church outside of…
Good Restaurants in Gomorrah
We scratch where it itches and even the most casual observer of the Episcopal Church knows that…
Women of Renewal: A Statement
This statement, originally titled “A Christian Women’s Declaration,” was issued on September 16, 1997 by the Ecumenical…
The Gift of Salvation
In the spring of 1994, a distinguished group of Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants issued a much-discussed…
