Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Problem with Salad Bowl Religion
I wonder what my rebbe ancestors would think of me,” writes a young Unitarian Universalist minister in…
Untangling Evolution
There’s no denying that historically evolution has been harmful to religious faith. It has contributed to undermining…
Christ and Creation’s Longing
In 1971, I published In Defense of People, the first book-length critique of “the ecology movement” that…
Only Connect
Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language by douglas r. hofstadter basic…
Typology and the Public Church
One of the contributions of twentieth-century Catholic “nouvelle théologie,” and of Henri de Lubac and Jean Danielou…
Episcopalians: The Leftward Center
The modern Episcopal Church is the oddest of churches: scrupulous about maintaining tradition in matters of worship…
Atrocities Not Fit to Print
Since January 1996, when a coalition of Christian and Jewish activists began working to publicize in America…
The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism
In a retrospective essay on Carl Sagan in the January 9, 1997 New York Review of Books,…
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
This article is adapted from the 1996 Erasmus Lecture, delivered at Our Savior Roman Catholic Church in…
Letters—Aug/Sept 1997
Favoritism vs. Nondiscrimination? In the April issue of First Things (“God and Bigotry at Yale,” Public Square),…
Catholicism and the Bible: An Interview with Albert Vanhoye
Father Albert Vanhoye recently began his second five-year term as Secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission. In…
Rapture and Renewal in Latin America
At a recent crusade in Argentina, Alberto Mottesi, the Billy Graham of Latin America, thundered to the…
Rethinking Ritual
Looking at the Liturgy: A Critical View of Its Contemporary Form by aidan nichols ignatius, 129 pages,…
Catholics in Exile
In “The Unhappy Fate of Optional Orthodoxy” (Public Square, January), Richard John Neuhaus proposes “Neuhaus’ Law” concerning…
A Bible Fit for Children
In a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to…
