SHORT TAKE John F. Haught Trashing Teilhard HOW NOT TO READ A GREAT RELIGIOUS THINKER Was the Jesuit priest and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin really a racist, fascist, and even geno-cidal...
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John F. Haught Unwarranted Certainty Our Mathematical Universe My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality Max Tegmark Alfred A. Knopf, $30, 432 pp. The Accidental Universe The World You...
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CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION John F. Haught Darwin's Nagging Doubt WHAT THOMAS NAGEL COULD LEARN FROM THEOLOGY With me the horrid doubt always arises," wrote Charles Darwin, "whether the...
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Theological Books John F. Haught Hard-wired for God? The Faith Instinct How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures Nicholas Wade The Penguin Press, $25.95, 310 pp. For centuries we thought that...
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More Being The Emergence of Teilhard de Chardin John F. Haught Gaudium et spes, the Second Vatican Council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (1965), is...
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The last Word
Don’t Assign These Books John F. Haught T he best-selling atheistic manifestoes by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens are now in the paperback phase of...
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The Last Word Darwin & the Cardinal ~ohn F. Haught M any Catholics would be surprised to hear that the Darwinian theory of evolution is incompatible with Christian faith. Yet this was...
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THE UNFINISHED UNIVERSE Does creation tell a story? John F. Naught Before modern times, most people thought the universe had a purpose. The natural world seemed to be here for a reason, though...
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Open dialogue I want to congratulate you on Archbishop Rembert Weakland's January 11 article ("The Liturgy as Battlefield"). I really like the fact that he and...
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THE DARWINIAN UNIVERSE Isn't there room for God? John F. Haught Religious skeptics and critics of theology are increasingly turning to Charles Darwin. Freud and Marx have lost much of their former...
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YES Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? The Relationship Between Science and Religion Michael Ruse Cambridge University Press, $24.95,242 pp. John F. Haught ew scholars have written more...
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Can we understand understanding? to many experts at the time, were well Nor do we really know how to...
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EVOLUTION & GOD'S HUMILITY How theology can embrace Darwin John F. Haught harles Darwin claimed that all terrestrial life shares a common ancestry and that the wide array of living species can...
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THE DARWINIAN STRUGGLE Catholics, pay attention John F. Haught Charles Darwin has never been more popular than today," writes John Durant in the July 11 New York Times Book Review. "His...
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