Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Jonathan Edwards & the Public Square
One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards by gerald r. mcdermott pennsylvania state…
A Modern Pilgrim’s Progress
Saints & Sinners: Walter Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Anton LeVay, Will Campbell, Matthew Fox by…
A Word on “The Competition”
The Public Square So it has come to this. Fifty-two years ago, the great Reinhold Niebuhr and…
The Newtape File IV
Dear Nephew, my impish one, You seem to have grasped the point about eviscerating distinctions of any…
Athens and Jerusalem, Again
President Clinton’s push to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military has been called many things:…
Music of the Spheres
In the beginning there was no beginning; no no; no was; no in; no there— nothing that…
God and Evolution: An Exchange
I Howard J. Van Till Although the rhetoric Phillip E. Johnson employs in his article “Creator or…
Simple Anna
Simple Anna liked the words although she didn’t understand what many of them meant. Her man sometimes…
The Complexities of Natural Law
Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays edited by robert p. george clarendon/oxford university press, 371 pages, $39.95 A…
Against Peer Fear
In response to many inquiries, we are pleased to report that Father Neuhaus continues to recover very…
National Service as Duty and Perk
I know a man who spends four or five weeks of every year in the army. He…
The Skimpole Syndrome: Childhood Unlimited
Let me re-introduce you to Mr. Harold Skimpole. Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens’ Bleak…
Sex and the Single Life
What is it that Christians ought to say and do about the issue of sexual relations between…
The World’s Oldest Virtue
Whenever there is a contest between etiquette and acknowledged virtues, etiquette loses. Hardly anyone would dispute the…
Saving the World
In the Fall 1991 issue of New Perspectives Quarterly , which is very usefully devoted to the…
