Though the term is rarely employed in our time, “Christian humanism” is one of the noblest movements of the last century. It’s a concept much older than the 20th century, of course, dating back to St.

Pope Francis has said it is “useless” to seek solutions to ills and problems in the Church through “conservatism and fundamentalism” and warned against a faith that is “locked in subjectivism” in a ...

Philosophical naturalism assumes that everything can be explained by natural law. In its accounts of the human, God is expendable, as is all other mystery. Not only is this view of things mistaken, ...

Secular humanists and evangelical Christians who concur on virtually nothing else agree that Christianity and humanism are incompatible. But they’re mistaken. Christianity is humanism in its purest ...

Near the end of his wondrous tapestry of Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil, Alan Jacobs quotes an extended passage from Eliot written during World War II. Eliot ...

Pope Francis is causing quite the stir these days. On Tuesday he will make his first trip to the United States, where he'll preach the existential urgency of climate change and the moral imperative of ...

An initiative Pope Francis began soon after he took office in 2013 was to include women in the feet-washing ceremony during Holy Thursday. It's a decision that continues to be actively debated in ...

“Religion ceased to be a significant factor … between the First and Second World Wars.” Humanism raises this self-confident shout of victory in “Religions of the Future,” an essay by Tolbert H.

What are the necessary ingredients in forming a philosophy of higher education both at the college level and at the theological level? The situation at the time of the Reformation provides an answer ...