Ian S. Markham

In late October, Richard Burridge, dean of King’s College London and professor of biblical interpretation there, was the first non–Roman Catholic to receive the prestigious Ratzinger Prize, set up as a kind of Nobel Prize for Theology. (Previous winners include Brian Daley, S.J. and . . . . Continue Reading »

If God is all-powerful, then he must be able to abolish evil; if God is all-loving, then he must wish to abolish evil; but evil exists, therefore God cannot be both all-powerful and all-loving.” So runs the traditional statement of the problem of evil. Anthony Flew and John Mackie believed that . . . . Continue Reading »

Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason by John Milbank Basil Blackwell, 443 pages, $64.95 John Milbank does not get a very good press in Britain. He is viewed as a young upstart who is breaking the accepted conventions of Christian ethics. His main crime is that he wants to develop the . . . . Continue Reading »