Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
“Father Forgive Them”?
The first word from the cross: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Christians…
Born Toward Dying
We are born to die. Not that death is the purpose of our being born, but we…
Dragon in a Three Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China
Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China by doug guthrie princeton university press,…
The Holy Feminine
Catherine of Siena by giuliana cavallini, o.p. cassell academic, 163 pages, $60 cloth, $21.50 The Flowing Light…
Two Languages of Salvation: The Lutheran-Catholic Joint Declaration
One of the central themes of the New Testament, if not the central theme, is the way…
Human Dignity, Human Rights
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 97 (November 1999): 39-42. Fifty years ago, a tangle of intellectual and…
Still Waiting for Benedict
Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues By Alasdair MacIntyre. Open Court. 166 pp. $26.95…
Edith Stein, Apostate Saint
The recent canonization of Edith Stein as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross by the Roman Catholic…
London Diary
A week in London at the end of May, and a number of things are not quite…
Seeking Something Spiritual
After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950’s.By Robert Wuthnow.University of California Press. 277 pp. $29.95 Shopping…
Calvin and the Christian Calling
The sixteenth century was a period of tumultuous change in Western Europe. The need for some kind…
A Christian University: Defining the Difference
The title of George Marsden’s most recent book on Christian higher education referred to the idea of…
The Slowness of the Good
Patience: How We Wait Upon the World.By David Baily Harned.Cowley. 191 pp. $12.95 Over the past several…
The Sexual Counterrevolution
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue.By Wendy Shalit.Free Press. 304 pp. $24. Despite its modest…
The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice
If I were to say that the highest imaginable exemplification of the good consists in dying sacrificially…
