Ireland: Sacred Spaces and The Pursuit of New Gods
Crawford Gribben on Ireland’s Ancient Religious Traditions O ne-night last week, I raised the blind and looked out of my bedroom window towards
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Liberalism’s Interest in Theology
Evan F. Kuehn In 2013 I attended a dinner hosted by the Lumen Christi Institute, a center for Catholic thought adjacent to the
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The Unity Death Yields: Assassination Through A Theologian’s Eyes
Paul Griffiths’ Monthly Column on Politics and Society from a Christian Perspective In a time of intractable political division in America, it’s instructive
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Interpreting Miracles
Madeline McMahon on Robert A. Orsi & Karin Vélez The defining feature of a miracle is that it does not make sense in its context.
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Sex, Flesh, God: Towards a Theology of Carnal Life
Wesley Hill on Paul Griffiths Christianity’s central preoccupation is with a tortured body, now radiantly transformed—the human body of Jesus, once crucified and
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Catholicism as Contradiction
Katherine Dugan reviews The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader Pope Francis’ recent trip to South America was one of the most embroiled of
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The Pope and The Pill
Karen Ross reviews Aline Kalbian’s Sex, Violence, and Justice In 1968 the Catholic Church addressed the issue of artificial contraception in its encyclical
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Unintended Consequences: How the Reformation Expanded Theology
Christopher Ocker on how the Reformation changed theology It all began with propositions “for a disputation for the sake of disclosing the power
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First Impressions #82: Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez on the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
In the nineteenth-century United States, the Virgin Mary appealed to Protestants just as much as she did to Catholics. Dave Krueger speaks
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Thomas Merton and the Future of Faith – By Christopher Pramuk
Merton dares us to imagine what is possible for God and for human beings In August of 1938, a young graduate student at
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