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Björn Odendahl, an editor at Katholisch.de, writes the following in the course of commenting on the Pope’s plans for…

Luke 1 is Trinitarianly odd. Our creeds, growing out of Matthew 28:18-20 and other biblical texts, speak of…

I will start out politely, with the traditional As-salaam-u alaykum, peace be to you, and I will…

Virtually every western constitutional democracy has one or more major parties claiming to represent the principles of…

It’s significant, writes Walter Kasper (Handbook of Spiritual Ecumenism), that “Jesus did not primarily express his desire…

Nation states have enormous power, which can be projected outwardly and exercised within. We can bomb targets…

As early as Xenophon, ingratitude has seen as a cause of sedition, and during the middle ages…

It is Christmas Eve, and Olivia Pope, star of the ABC melodrama Scandal is about to get…

In a brief 2002 essay on “Creator and Creature,” reprinted in Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics, Robert Jenson admits that…

Is China poised to rule the world? Will its growing economic and political clout fundamentally transform the…

The contributors to Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity share a skepticism of accounts of “Rousseau the…

The Syrian refugee crisis has metastasized to a crisis for more than just the refugees. With at…

Nikolaus Pevsner (The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design) quotes Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, writing in 1841: “There…

Kevin M. Schultz’s contribution to Faith in the New Millennium is “The Blessings of American Pluralism, and Those…

Isaiah 19-20:6 is an oracle against Egypt. It’s not good news for Egypt. Egypt will come under…