Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
More on the College of the Holy Cross
Charlotte Allen and George Weigel have each written sharply on the controversy at the College of the…
Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual
You’ve asked me how to become an intellectual. You’re young, it seems (only young people ask questions…
Soloveitchik the Zionist
Rabbi, if only I knew our suffering was paving the way for the Messiah,” cried a Jewish…
Dissenters from Disenchantment
Monterey Peninsula College is a two-year school in California. Students in the Great Books Program there don’t…
The Theology of Foreign Policy
On matters of foreign policy, Americans are divided into two hidden camps. Not Republicans versus Democrats, nor…
Oscar Romero, Martyr and Saint
The Scandal of Redemption: When God Liberates the Poor, Saves Sinners, and Heals Nationsby oscar romeroplough, 140 pages, $8…
Briefly Noted
Leonardo da Vinciby walter isaacsonsimon and schuster, 624 pages, $35 Walter Isaacson, best known for biographies of…
David as Politician
The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuelby moshe halbertal and stephen holmesprinceton, 232…
Evangelical Gnosticism
I teach in a great books program at an Evangelical university. Almost all students in the program are…
Heal Our Wounds
Six months after he was elected to the Chair of Peter, Pope Francis made one of the…
Letters
Asserted, Not Argued Robert Benne’s critique of Mitri Raheb’s lecture on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (“Political Supersessionism,” March)…
America and Liberalism
The American experiment.” I cringed whenever Richard John Neuhaus used that formulation. We live in a country,…
Two Kingdom Theology in the Trump Era
From October 2017 until October 2018, Protestants around the world, especially Lutherans, are commemorating the five hundredth…
Marriage in The Methodist Church
In 1987, the Taskforce of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality (TUMAS) was founded to be a…
Toward Incarnation
Typological reading of Scripture has been disfavored in modern Christianity. It should be restored to favor, not…