The Father’s Tale: An Everyman in Quest of His Wholeness
The Father's Tale: A Novel. Michael D. O'Brien. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2011. Many years ago I came across a mordantly witty book review: “The…
The Father's Tale: A Novel. Michael D. O'Brien. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2011. Many years ago I came across a mordantly witty book review: “The…
At a time when the reality of the gospel threatens to fall apart into the constructions of an historical Jesus and a doctrinal Christ, one cannot stress…
First Impressions My first encounter with T. S. Eliot's masterpiece, the poem-cycle Four Quartets, took place when I was twenty years old. The conditions were unusually felicitous.…
Of American poets taught regularly in secondary education, the two most ill-served are Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. Students are typically introduced to these poets through their…
Rejecting Ideology With Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) and Simone Weil (1909-1943), we are confronted with two philosophers who examine events, understand their present, and consider the "disorder" of…
Christians as Political Animals: Taking the Measure of Modernity and Modern Democracy. Marc Guerra. Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2010. The book is an Augustinian-inspired critique…
What was Eric Voegelin’s relationship to Christianity? Was Voegelin a Christian? Is his philosophy a Christian philosophy? These complicated personal and scholarly questions must be divided and…