Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Infidelity of the Present
It did not require great perspicacity to predict some of the fevered negative reactions to the recent…
A Tale of Two Weddings
Royal weddings can be solemn or superficial, yet remain in either case of utmost importance. They are…
A Sword Against Spiritual Foes
Andrew Klavan’s novel The Emperor’s Sword completes the trilogy begun two years ago with Another Kingdom and…
Save the Date!
Save the date for the 2021 First Things Intellectual Retreat! Our theme is solidarity, and we hope…
Unsolitary Grandeur
The mountains are my church.” So said an old parishioner of mine who tended cattle in the…
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 she came through the door / and said, Jesus, / would He turn and see /…
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…
