Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
When Families Fail
Perhaps the most striking feature of our contemporary political landscape is the failure of the tattered labels…
A Jewish Theological Understanding of Christianity in Our Time
It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the…
The Flag Amendment Is a Religious Issue
The issue of a constitutional amendment to prohibit desecration of the American flag is currently on political…
Super Flumina Babylonis, or, Outside the Mainstream
Readers of the New York Times, which Alasdair MacIntyre has called “that parish magazine of affluent and self-congratulatory…
Middle East Apocalypse Now?
Saddam Hussein’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait may have thrown the world economy into confusion, but it…
Liturgy
We kept building our steeples higher until / emissions streamed to thousands of miles away...
Authority in the Church: Excavations Among the Ruins
Authority is an issue that occupies a central place in current ecumenical discussion among the churches and…
The Achievement of Jacques Maritain
Although the twentieth century was often proclaimed by the church to be the “Age of the Laity,”…
The Lives of the Saints and the Pursuit of Virtue
Of the several paths that lead to virtue, the broadest and the most promising is the way…
Restoring the God of their Fathers
The Emergence of Jewish Theology in America by robert g. goldy indiana university press, 149 pages, $25…
Telling the American Catholic Story
Catholics in America have rarely taken the study of their history seriously. My own educational circumstances, which…
Catholics Against Hitler
The Jesuits and the Third Reich by vincent a. lapomarda, s. j. the edwin mellen press, 375…
Learning from the Cold War
It has become commonplace in the last year or so to refer to “the end of the…
Nature’s Call
In Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana the dissolute but not, he emphatically insists, officially “defrocked”…
Literature and Moral Purposes
This essay originated as the fifth annual Erasmus Lecture, sponsored by the Institute on Religion and Public…
