Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Polemic by Beauty
Things Worth Dying For:Thoughts on a Life Worth Livingby charles j. chaputhenry holt & company, 272 pages,…
The Liturgical Medium is the Message
Contemporary worship music is often banal. No matter the content, the form by itself trivializes what takes…
Learning by Heart
In Darwin, Australia, sometime in 1958, an old man lay dying in hospital. He asked to see—of…
Pixelated Souls
The great liberal thinkers who devised our constitutional order were responding to a seventeenth-century problem, most sharply…
Saint Vincent of Saragossa
His attributes are few—a book, a rodwith three large hooks. But it cannot conveythe tortures, multiple, endured…
Storming the Barricades
As the bicentennial of the United States Constitution was approaching in 1989, Michael Kammen published a book…
The Greatest Christian Novel
When Dostoevsky wrote his last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, the revolutionary movement that would lead…
The Politics of Memory
In January 2020, the Socialist government of Spain, led by Pedro Sánchez, proposed a bill of profound…
Why I Keep Kosher
If you yourself are not obliged to observe Kosher, or if you simply elect not to (only…
Brief Friends
The sight of old men huddled around outdoor tables, drinking coffee with one another, is familiar. In…
Briefly Noted
The Gospel in Dickens:Selections from His Worksedited by gina dalfonzo plough, 264 pages, $18 Charles Dickens, according…
Karl Barth
No theologian has exercised a greater influence on me than Karl Barth. I first encountered his work…
Keeping the Faith
The more religiously committed parents are, the more they want their children to grow up believing and…
Not So Silent Cal
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Amity Shlaes joins the…
Learning to Mean What the Liturgy Says
A month back I wrote on the confusions caused by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who…