Evangelical Cosmopolitanism
by Peter J. LeithartJew and Gentile are knit together as the new Messianic humanity, brought alive by the Spirit to be life to one another, and so life to the world. Continue Reading »
The Myth of Medieval Paganism
by Francis YoungThey don’t look very Christian—those strange faces made of leaves, and those women displaying cartoonishly enlarged genitals on the walls of medieval churches. Most people who have explored the medieval architecture of Western Europe have heard a tour guide explain that a particular carving . . . . Continue Reading »
Men Without Conviction, Churches Without People
by George WeigelChristianity is dying in Europe, and irresponsible priests—who surrender the gospel to political fads—are largely to blame. Continue Reading »
A Tale of Two Christendoms
by Matthew SchmitzThe Paris Statement decries the faux Christendom of democracy, but we will need more than local patriotism and recollection of Christian roots to combat it. Continue Reading »
God and Brexit
by George WeigelWhen biblical religion collapsed, as it manifestly has in most of Old Europe and too much of New Europe after 1989, commitments to subsidiarity and its respect for difference imploded as well. Continue Reading »
Hatred Under Ice?
by Peter L. BergerThere is by now a well-established conventional view about the eruptions of ethnic hatred in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet empire. This view holds that these are the result of age-old enmities, which were held under control by the various Communist regimes and thus for a time, at least in . . . . Continue Reading »
Christ, Culture & the New Europe
by Rémi BragueThe Synod of European bishops that took place in Rome last year engaged a wide range of topics. Nevertheless both the meetings and the press coverage of them kept returning to a single theme, that is, the re-evangelization of European culture. While some people find in this idea a fascinating plan . . . . Continue Reading »
The God of Abraham and the Enemies of “Eurocentrism”
by Jon D. LevensonHalf a century ago, on March 9, 1940, with the world collapsing into a war that was to exceed the worst nightmare, the great German novelist Thomas Mann delivered a brief radio address entitled “The Dangers Democracy.” “The streamlined, artificial anti-Semitism of our technical age,” . . . . Continue Reading »
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