Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
St. Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903–1939 by martin stannard norton (1987), 537 pages, $10.95 paper Evelyn Waugh: The…
The Newtape File III
Dear Nephew, I trust it did not escape your notice that I have eliminated an affectionate diminutive…
Choice Trees
In primal garden the tree stands laden, splendor consummate, grace-rooted, owned by him who warns, don’t eat…
Man in a Glacier
The mountainside failed. But when we saw that deep spot the dead sun came back heavy as…
