Demon of Disunity

by Hans Boersma

Prayer gives us entry into the eschaton, where we see the eternal glory of the Son of God. Continue Reading »

21 Oct 2019

Newman’s Shocking Faith

by Dan Hitchens

The real meaning of “faith” can be discovered in the writings of John Henry Newman.  Continue Reading »

11 Oct 2019

Letters From the Synod–2019: #2

Edited by Xavier Rynne II

Catholics are growing dispirited by a Church that increasingly presents itself as a global NGO whose primary concerns are political rather than spiritual.  Continue Reading »

9 Oct 2019

Letters From the Synod-2019: #1

Edited by Xavier Rynne II

The Amazon Synod will expose theological and doctrinal tensions within Catholicism that have roiled the Church for the past half-century. Continue Reading »

7 Oct 2019

Harrowing Hart on Hell

by Douglas Farrow

David Bentley Hart, familiar to readers of these pages as an intellectual pugilist who floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee, has entered the ring for the Big Fight. Armed with his recent translation of the New Testament, he is ready to prove that no one suffers eternal . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2019

Fear of the Word

by Hans Boersma

My students are afraid to preach—not all of them, but more and more, it seems. And it is often the brightest and most eloquent, those who are least justified in parroting Moses’s excuse—“I am slow of speech and of tongue”—who lack the confidence to open the Scriptures for the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2019

Keep It Real

by Francesca Aran Murphy

An Avant-garde Theological Generation:  The Nouvelle Théologie and the French Crisis of Modernity by jon kirwan oxford, 336 pages, $94 Jon Kirwan presents the Nouvelle Théologie as a movement with three successive generations of leaders: those directly involved in the Dreyfus Affair and the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2019

Briefly Noted

by Various

The End is Music:  A Companion to Robert W. Jenson’s Theology by chris e. w. green cascade, 107 pages, $17 We are still in the first stage of the reception of Robert ­Jenson’s theology, but Chris E. W. Green has emerged as one of the most thoughtful and active Jensonians. The End is . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2019

Letters

by Various

DE GAULLE In “A Certain Idea of France” (April), Peter Hitchens goes too far when he concludes that de Gaulle was “the last stand of a great lost cause” of a Europe of independent nations: “De Gaulle’s desire for a Europe of independent nations, including a resurgent France, was doomed . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2019

Love Is Not a Feeling

by Carl R. Trueman

Georgetown Visitation’s policy change does not represent a more Christian approach, but actually expresses the secular mindset in a Christian idiom. Continue Reading »

30 May 2019