Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Vaccines and Fetal Tissue
In 1975 Paul Ramsey published a little book titled The Ethics of Fetal Research. In it he…
A Sinner Washes the Feet of Jesus
“If Jesus were a prophet, he would know that the woman touching him is a sinner” (Luke…
Briefly Noted
Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism:Finding Christ Among the Karamazovsby paul j. contino cascade, 334 pages, $45 Pepperdine professor Paul…
D.C. Gets its Gehry
Washington, D.C.’s cultural apparatchiks have long hankered for a Frank Gehry showpiece. On the eve of the…
Foucault’s Principalities & Powers
In the late 1960s, a sociologist described French theorist Michel Foucault (1926–1984) as “a sort of frail,…
Hope and Her Daughters
The virtue of hope has two beautiful daughters, anger and courage: anger with the way things are,…
How Great Was He?
Philip and Alexander:Kings and Conquerorsby adrian goldsworthy basic, 608 pages, $35 An immensely successful father poses a…
Just Think What We’ll be Missing
Note: This column was written in December 2020. I leave it to readers to judge its pertinence…
T. S. Eliot and the Jews
There recur in the work of T. S. Eliot two obsessions that make one cringe: his Jew-hatred…
The Biblical Case Against IVF
Vulnerable human beings in the earliest stages of life are especially at risk these days. Increasingly, on…
The Dreamer as Architect
Last night in dreams, she lived a thousand yearsAnd was the architect who made a houseThat wandered…
The Shadow of Nothingness
Pandemic, lockdowns, shuttered churches, trillions spent, BLM protests turning violent, political rancor, hyper-partisan media, uproar after the…
The Spymaster
A Legacy of Spies by john le carré viking, 272 pages, $28 Last December, while most of…
Together, Separate
The bells ring out. We’re gathered roundoutside the church. Unhallowed groundis where we celebrate this year.We celebrate,…
The Equality Act’s Assault on Religious Liberty
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR5, the so-called “Equality Act,” to amend various provisions of…
