Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Benjamin Watson Tackles Abortion
Will we decide to love each other enough to mend our divided hearts?” This is one of…
Remembering Rabbi Lord Sacks (1948–2020)
Not very long ago, theologians could be found on the covers of popular magazines or regularly broadcasting…
Three Models of Priestly Goodness
The Pandemic of 2020 has been hard on every Catholic. Eucharistic fasting for this length of time…
Briefly Noted
Strange Rites:New Religions for a Godless Worldtara isabella burton publicaffairs books, $28 What follows traditional religion’s decline…
Show Me Your Glory
Sometimes it’s difficult to convey Jewish thinking to Christians precisely when it appears almost identical with the…
Look Out, Ol’ Mackie Is Back!
When I first read Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind more than thirty years ago,…
Theological Theology
Baby boomers still run much of the world, and sadly, their greatest theologian has already died. John…
Standing Against Tyranny
A year before the end of his long life (1895–1998), the German author Ernst Jünger converted to…
The Season of Our Discontent
We’re all on edge. Only this morning, two of my neighbors were bickering in the lobby of…
Thou
One of the disappointing features of our controversies about biblical translations, the readings in the lectionary, the…
Pietas
In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days…
Solzhenitsyn: More Than Fashionable
In the realm of ideas, and in the realm of art, there are fashions—just as there are…
Just War and Fratelli Tutti
Nobody expected the Church’s just war tradition to be a key part of the encyclical Fratelli Tutti, but…
Philadelphia and the New “Tolerance”
Philadelphia is a tough place. It’s the home of the famously overserved football fans who, as a…
Fratelli Tutti and the Good Samaritan Society
Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on “fraternity and social friendship,” will generate work for theologians for…
