A few years ago, when I was finishing my doctorate in moral theology at a pontifical university in Rome, a theologian read my research. After his review, he asked me, “I noticed you quoted Paul VI’s ...

Access to an article by Gerald McDermott from the April 2011 edition of First Things has been posted at the site for the past few weeks. It is titled “Evangelicals Divided” and concerns recent ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: The debate over how God reveals himself was a central part of Vatican II and continues to nourish the Church. A Bible handwritten in Latin, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, ...

This article argues that narratives about the loss and (potential) recovery of biblical texts can reveal a previously neglected genre of “biblical theology” in premodern Jewish sources—a religious ...

For Roman Catholicism, Holy Scripture is a primary source of revelation. As Trent puts it, saving truth and moral teaching “are contained in written books.” These are the books of the Old and New ...

For nearly 2,000 years, each succeeding generation of Christians has tried to puzzle out whether the Book of Revelation's riddles and symbols has meant its own time was the end of time. Over the past ...

Nestled in the gospels is a short passage that can easily be skipped over and Christians call it “the Transfiguration”. It is when Jesus invited three of his disciples, Peter, James, and John, up a ...

With the increasingly warm relationship between Catholics and evangelicals, evangelicals in­evitably face this question: Can we consider Catholics—at least some Catholics—to be evangelicals? In other ...

The relationship between Scripture and tradition is a question as acute today as ever. The sixteenth century by no means settled the issue, decisive and significant though the problem was at that time ...

Not so long ago, the phrase “control of the narrative” was meaningless. Today, it is viewed as a fundamental principle of political, cultural and even religious life. Who sets the parameters of the ...