It is Written in the Book

by Francesca Aran Murphy

Religions are not timeless—but neither are they unable to transcend the time from which they sprang.  Continue Reading »

7 Sep 2017

Make Hell Hot Again

by Marc Barnes

I have a problem with hell that goes beyond squeamishness. The problem is one of inserting the damned into God’s endgame, his final fix—creation brought to its triumphant completion. Doesn’t the presence of everlasting torment put a damper on the success story? I went to Aquinas for . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2017

A Castle of Thought

by Grant Kaplan

Theologian Frederick Lawrence synthesizes the work of two twentieth-century giants: Bernard Lonergan and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Continue Reading »

11 Jul 2017

Alvin Plantinga’s Masterful Achievement

by William Doino Jr.

Alvin Plantinga is justly celebrated for sparking a global renaissance in Christian philosophy. Continue Reading »

5 Jun 2017

Figure It In

by Michael C. Legaspi

Time and the Word:Figural Reading of the Christian Scripturesby ephraim radnereerdmans, 326 pages, $50 Moderns are accustomed to taking premodern interpretations of the Bible to be products of a bygone time, when outmoded worldviews permitted naive, anachronistic interpretations of scriptural texts. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

Waiting For and With Jesus

by Timothy George

John, recounting the story of Lazarus, gives us a God who does not fit neatly into the comfortable theodicies of our postmodern sensibility. Continue Reading »

3 Apr 2017

God’s Image, Man’s Crimes

by James R. Rogers

Mosaic (and Noahic) teachings regarding the death penalty are revelations of God and teach us of God’s grace, mercy, forgiveness, and love. But how? Continue Reading »

29 Mar 2017

God as Therapy in The Shack

by Connor Grubaugh

There is neither sin nor suffering in The Shack—only the psychotherapeutic notion of “pain,” which encapsulates them both. Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2017

Theology isn’t Math; but it is Theology

by George Weigel

There are many ways of doing theology, and not all of them are strictly syllogistic; But if theology decays into illogical forms of Newspeak, it is false to itself. Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2017

Fr. Spadaro’s Math

by Carlo Lancellotti

Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, tweets that, “Theology is not #Mathematics. 2 + 2 in #Theology can make 5. Because it has to do with #God and real #life of #people.” Whence the desire to separate God from the unchanging truth of math? Continue Reading »

19 Jan 2017