Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Briefly Noted
Strange Rites:New Religions for a Godless Worldtara isabella burton publicaffairs books, $28 What follows traditional religion’s decline…
Show Me Your Glory
Sometimes it’s difficult to convey Jewish thinking to Christians precisely when it appears almost identical with the…
Look Out, Ol’ Mackie Is Back!
When I first read Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind more than thirty years ago,…
Theological Theology
Baby boomers still run much of the world, and sadly, their greatest theologian has already died. John…
Standing Against Tyranny
A year before the end of his long life (1895–1998), the German author Ernst Jünger converted to…
The Season of Our Discontent
We’re all on edge. Only this morning, two of my neighbors were bickering in the lobby of…
Thou
One of the disappointing features of our controversies about biblical translations, the readings in the lectionary, the…
Pietas
In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days…
Solzhenitsyn: More Than Fashionable
In the realm of ideas, and in the realm of art, there are fashions—just as there are…
Just War and Fratelli Tutti
Nobody expected the Church’s just war tradition to be a key part of the encyclical Fratelli Tutti, but…
Philadelphia and the New “Tolerance”
Philadelphia is a tough place. It’s the home of the famously overserved football fans who, as a…
Fratelli Tutti and the Good Samaritan Society
Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on “fraternity and social friendship,” will generate work for theologians for…
Mystery of the Trinity
For the past forty years, two Reformed theologians—Vern Poythress of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and John…
Give My Regards to New York
I came to be an actress, or something like that. I stayed to raise a daughter. Along…
A Fracture in the Stonewall
The website UnHerd, a source of refreshingly independent and heretical perspectives on the orthodoxies of our day,…
