Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Corrected

Paul V. Mankowski

(chanted to no tune in particular) BEFORE: by Julia Ward Howe Mine eyes have seen the glory…

Evangelizing Liberalism

M. B. Handspicker

In the March issue of First Things , Benton Johnson, Dean R. Hoge, and Donald A. Luidens…

The Newtape File V

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Dear Nephew, my plutonic sprout, I am pleased as punch (spiked with Demon Rum, of course) at…

Life’s Value

Alan Jacobs

The Children of Men by p. d. james knopf, 241 pages, $22 For some years now the…

Immigration and the Aliens Among Us

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square Like many American Jews, Martin Peretz, editor in chief of The New Republic, had…

The Illusion of Moral Neutrality

J. Budziszewski

I Nietzsche claimed that if men took God seriously, they would still be burning heretics at the…

God in a World of Gods

Peter L. Berger

In North America, and increasingly in Europe, it has become a truism to say that the present…

To Read and to Live

Alan Jacobs

In 1956, W.H. Auden returned to an Oxford University from which he had graduated almost thirty years…

For Duns Scotus

Mark P. Shea

Under the dome-sky oneness  translucent and unincarnate as thought, blank as unburnt light, the hope of thisness…

Jewish Ethics Engaged

Edward T. Oakes

Jewish Social Ethics by david novak oxford university press, 252 pages, $39.95 The renowned scholar of Talmudic…

Men and Women—Can We Be Friends?

Gilbert Meilaender

In Xenophon’s Oeconomicus, Socrates and Critobulus are discussing household management, in which the wife plays a major…

Living at the Borders: Eastern Orthodoxy and World

Anthony Ugolnik

Five years ago, well before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the National Geographic Society had anticipated…

Drouth

Kent Gramm

I invoke the air in rage,  am like a cancer in a cage— only myself to burn,…

The Problem of Power

Mark C. Henrie

The Nature of Politics: Selected Essays of Bertrand de Jouvenel edited by dennis hale and marc landy…

Beyond the Mainline Tale

Walter Sundberg

The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers In Our Religious Economy by roger finke and rodney…