Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Immigration and the Aliens Among Us
The Public Square Like many American Jews, Martin Peretz, editor in chief of The New Republic, had…
The Illusion of Moral Neutrality
I Nietzsche claimed that if men took God seriously, they would still be burning heretics at the…
God in a World of Gods
In North America, and increasingly in Europe, it has become a truism to say that the present…
To Read and to Live
In 1956, W.H. Auden returned to an Oxford University from which he had graduated almost thirty years…
For Duns Scotus
Under the dome-sky oneness translucent and unincarnate as thought, blank as unburnt light, the hope of thisness…
Jewish Ethics Engaged
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?
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
Five years ago, well before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the National Geographic Society had anticipated…
Drouth
I invoke the air in rage, am like a cancer in a cage— only myself to burn,…
The Problem of Power
The Nature of Politics: Selected Essays of Bertrand de Jouvenel edited by dennis hale and marc landy…
Beyond the Mainline Tale
The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers In Our Religious Economy by roger finke and rodney…
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…
