Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Tell Us What You Think
You’re pretty well informed about what First Things writers are thinking. Those who subscribe to the print…
The Woman Who Inspired Wicca
Just under a century ago, in 1921, one of the strangest books ever to be published by…
Keep Christ at the Center
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” These words from W. B. Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming”…
When Theory Wasn’t Political
Back in 1984 or so, Jacques Derrida came to UCLA to deliver a lecture to the English…
Toppling Priorities
The present trumps the past. Such is the rock-bottom conviction of our culture. Scientific and economic advances…
Woke Ideology at Catholic Colleges
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. C. C. Pecknold joins contributing…
What We’ve Been Reading—August 2020
R. R. RenoEditor nIn the final days of July I finished Christopher Beha’s latest novel, The Index…
Common Objects of Trust
A year ago, Gallup reported that trust in media was at an all-time low. We trust our…
Theology After the Virus
The Time of the Virus will have a significant effect on theological study, research, and training. The…
Progress Into the Abyss
During quarantine, I watched the recent Netflix series Unorthodox and the movie The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch.…
The Joy of Gerard
A Heart Lost in Wonder:The Life and Faith of Gerard Manley Hopkinsby catherine randalleerdmans, 195 pages, $22.00…
Aurel Kolnai and the Assault on Creation
As the culture of repudiation takes on pathological forms, aiming to replace Western civilization and American republicanism…
Solitary Prayer
It may seem odd to outsiders that in the middle of the last century, seating arrangements in…
Christian Democracy
In the early 1950s, the European Union as we know it did not exist, but a process…
St. John Paul II: A Centenary Reflection
On May 18, 1920, a third child and second son was born to a retired Polish army…
