Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Pixelated Souls

Jenna Silber Storey

The great liberal thinkers who devised our constitutional order were responding to a seventeenth-century problem, most sharply…

Saint Vincent of Saragossa

Catharine Savage Brosman

His attributes are few—a book, a rodwith three large hooks. But it cannot conveythe tortures, multiple, endured…

Storming the Barricades

Shalom Carmy

As the bicentennial of the United States Constitution was approaching in 1989, Michael Kammen published a book…

The Greatest Christian Novel

Gary Saul Morson

When Dostoevsky wrote his last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, the ­revolutionary movement that would lead…

The Politics of Memory

Stanley G. Payne

In January 2020, the Socialist government of Spain, led by Pedro Sánchez, proposed a bill of profound…

Why I Keep Kosher

J.H.H. Weiler

If you yourself are not obliged to observe Kosher, or if you simply elect not to (only…

Brief Friends

Ephraim Radner

The sight of old men huddled around outdoor tables, drinking coffee with one another, is familiar. In…

Briefly Noted

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The Gospel in Dickens:Selections from His Worksedited by gina dalfonzo plough, 264 pages, $18 Charles Dickens, according…

Karl Barth

R. R. Reno

No theologian has exercised a greater influence on me than Karl Barth. I first encountered his work…

Keeping the Faith

Christian Smith

The more religiously committed parents are, the more they want their children to grow up believing and…

Not So Silent Cal

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Amity Shlaes joins the…

Learning to Mean What the Liturgy Says

Raymond J. de Souza

A month back I wrote on the confusions caused by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who…

Worshipping with Thomas

Hans Boersma

Faith entails at least two things. First, it means to follow. John, the beloved disciple, looked into…

A Birthday Card to Balthasar

Peter J. Leithart

In his recently translated essay Theses Towards a Trinitarian Ontology, Klaus Hemmerle (1929–1994) writes that Christian theology…

What We’ve Been Reading—April 2021

The Editors

R. R. RenoEditor Robert Benne has been a strong and clear voice for Christian orthodoxy, and Thanks…