Books & Arts
Hauerwas on Hauerwas
Hauerwas divides Approaching the End into three parts dealing respectively with eschatology, the church, and what he calls “the difficulty of reality.”
Romance & Resurrection
Boitani addresses not the question of whether Shakespeare was Catholic, but a more basic one: Was he in any important sense a Christian poet?
Making Do
The men who tell their stories in 'Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City' know that they don’t look much like Ward Cleaver or Cliff Huxtable.
Just Warriors, Unjust Wars?
Catholics have special reason to care about Jeff McMahan’s work on the question of just war and the debates it has sparked.
The Art of the Con
No moviemaker since Sturges has made the din of recrimination as funny as Russell does in 'American Hustle,' while Scorcese dazzles though 'Wolf' goes nowhere.
He Is Who Is
One of David Bentley Hart's deeper points is that the major theistic religions do indeed have something in common when they say “God.”
Dworkin’s Jisei
'Religion Without God' is a lovely swan song. It is short—it’s based on the Einstein Lectures delivered at the University of Bern in 2011—but eloquent and rich.
Beyond the Cloister
Williams astutely alerts us to Evdokimov’s proposition that the vows of a religious are analogous to Christ’s response to the temptations in the desert.
When Martyrdom Isn’t a Metaphor
Not many Christians in the West are aware that in many parts of the world Christians still risk their lives just by going to church to celebrate the birth of Christ.
Grief Detained
Barnes's broodings are intelligent, often eloquent, and just to the elegiac occasion. But Barnes is also sometimes hard.
At Our Mercy
We have failed utterly to protect our planet and those who share it with us. For Christians, this constitutes a profound break with God.
