May 2012

Sin’s Political Lessons
“Sin’s Political Lessons” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on…
After Progressivism
“After Progressivism” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on in…
Renewing Dogmatic Theology
Catholics in the last fifty years or so have almost completely ceased to do dogmatic theology. Save…
My Failed Atheism
In thirty years as a professor, of graduate seminars, academic conferences, committee meetings, lunches and dinners, and…
The Selma Analogy
It’s easy to see why gay activists invoke the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s,…
Payne’s Books of Job
At the center of Alexander Payne’s moral vision stands the Little Human Being. His clever, contemporary comedies—most…
Remembering John Hick
Explain, John Hick once asked me in an undergraduate class, the traditional axiom that my church holds,…
Briefly Noted
Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Humanity by Raymond Tallis Acumen, 388 pages, $29.95 n…
Material God
Jesus Christ, Eternal God:Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter by stephen h. webb oxford, 368 pages,…
Dreams of Heaven
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by john gray farrar, straus and…
Faith’s Social Vision
The World as It Could Be: Catholic Social Thought for a New Generation by thomas d. williams…
Dogma’s Defender
Theological Tractates by erik peterson, edited and translated by michael j. hollerich stanford, 296 pages, $24.95 Germany’s…
Christian Europe?
Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians: The Religious Roots of Free Societiesby marcello peraencounter, 224 pages, $23.95 A…
Icons
No one now expects the rough Hilarity of Cruikshank ”The flight of hands like larks Beneath the…
Divine Mercy Sunday
The parish doorbell rings. When I descend the stair nobody is there, only a bag that sings…
The Enlistee
This wrestler isn’t ready yet for college, instead he’s shaved his head for the Marines. It isn’t…
Two Deaths
As I write these paragraphs, a friend of mine is treading through his last twenty-four hours of…
Liberalism After Liberalism
Liberalism After Liberalism” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on…