Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Black Spruce
From a distance it looked like ordinary wood, a snuff-colored twig one might rake for burning. Surfaced …
Contraries
Tell me everything you know, the sapient sage asked the seeker, and, since the former was, in…
Aceldama
Eternity is uncorrupted light; the world proceeds by interrupting sight, exchanging day and night. Half the acts…
Grandparents
Thinking of my grandparents, I stand for a moment on the curb of a street they often…
Domesticating Darwin
In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought by carl…
An Authentic Modernity
The Ethics of Authenticity by charles taylor harvard university press, 142 pages, $17.95 To grow up in…
The Homesick Homeless
Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy by jay tolson simon & schuster, 544 pages,…
Ignorant Armies
The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism by ronald l. numbers knopf, 458 pages, $27.50 Ronald L.…
Why That God Failed
Retreat from the Finland Station: Moral Odysseys in the Breakdown of Communism by kenneth murphy free press,…
Attention Must Be Paid
Multiculturalism and “The Politics of Recognition” an essay by charles taylor with commentary by amy gutmann (editor),…
Jesus Through the Eyes of John Rawls
Of late I have been reading John B. Meier’s A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. I…
What Is To Be Learned From “The Church in Socialism”
The Public Square At Boston University’s Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, headed by sociologist Peter…
The Newtape File II
Dear Nephew, my hellborn one, Ah, how I delight in writing you as my esteemed Uncle, Screwtape,…
Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal
In Washington, where he was to give the eighteenth Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 3,…
Picture Perfect: The Politics of Prenatal Testing
During the past two decades, prenatal screening for fetal defects has become a standard part of nearly…