Trinity, Creation, and The Order of Intelligence in the Modern Academy
The Second Vatican Council insists that “all Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection…
Ecology in Light of Integral Human Development
Integral human development sets the context within which alone an adequate approach to ecology can be conceived. In what follows, I will focus on the key principles…
The Given as Gift
"If the God of the Bible is creator of the universe, then it is not possible to understand fully or even appropriately the processes of nature without…
Mercy as a Reality Illuminated by Reason
In his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii gaudium [EG], Pope Francis insists that we need to anchor our approach to the Church’s missionary task in the Incarnate Word as…
Freedom, Truth, and Human Dignity
Catholics are generally aware that the background preparations for what was to become the Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom emphasized that truth alone had rights, and that…
The Embodied Person as Gift
The body in its physical structure as such bears a vision of reality: it is an anticipatory sign, and already an expression, of the order of love…
Philosopher of Love: David L. Schindler
For the orthodox Christian, is doing one’s public duty more or less reducible to voting for the most socially conservative Republican on the ballot—and then shutting up…
Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. D.C. Schindler. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018. Love and the Postmodern Predicament aims…
Show Me Your Laces: The Identical Aesthetic and Ideological Clash Exemplified by Anarchist and Neo-Fascist Punk
On the twelfth of September, 1992, the Waterloo station of the English National Rail system erupted into a riot, with two groups of men viciously attacking each…
The Communications of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra: Tongued With Fire Beyond The Language Of The Living
The media, colloquially referred to by some as, “the liberal media,” is widely known as one of the strongholds of the political left. Combined with the university…
On The Universe We Think In
Some astronomers think that a great, even infinite, number of universes are floating about somewhere out there in space. These worlds, with no real evidence, to be…
Blaise Pascal: The Mathematical and the Intuitive Mind
Matters of faith, philosophy, and theology were the center of intellectual debate at the beginning of the modern era. A previous age of traditions and institutions was…
Joan of Arc and the Challenge of Spiritual Discernment
We are told these days not to be judgmental. Being judgmental is indeed a vice, a way of lording it over others, but the making of judgments…
Recovering Moses: The Contribution of Eric Voegelin and Contemporary Political Science
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to examine the legacy of Moses as a political leader in search of political order. The Mosaic conflict with the…
Continental Freedom
Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition: Explorations in Modern Political Thought. Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire, editors. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2010. Originality…