Reading the Song of Songs with St. Thomas Aquinas
For all that he wrote, for all the centuries that he has been carefully studied, Thomas Aquinas is still not well understood. There are many reasons for…
For all that he wrote, for all the centuries that he has been carefully studied, Thomas Aquinas is still not well understood. There are many reasons for…
When I first opened Dr. Sebastian Morello’s monograph, The World as God’s Icon: Creator and Creation in the Platonic Thought of Thomas Aquinas (Angelico Press, 2020), I…
When it played in the movie theaters, the terrific movie Act of Valor (2012) earned notoriety for two reasons. First of all, for its casting it used…
Greetings to those of you in Seattle, who now know the answer to the age-old question: “Where would we be without law?” Answer: “Seattle.” The title of…
In the conclusion of her review of David Walsh’s book, The Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being, Macon Boczek challenges the author’s assertion that…
In our capacity as political scientists, historians, or philosophers we all have had occasion at one time or another to engage in debate with ideologists — whether…
I argue that Girard’s understanding of the political order is largely in line with Thomistic thinking on the common good. In following Girard in his extrapolations of…
The Catholic Church’s recent definitive revocation of the death penalty[1] suggests that something in the zeitgeist demands a rethinking of one strand of conservative thought. Always the…
Apart from the Council of Nicaea and the Council of Trent, the Second Vatican Council is arguably one of the most consequential ecumenical councils in the history…
While Saint Thomas Aquinas roots his political thinking in the natural law whose community is cosmopolis, with God as its ruler, he provides the basis for affirming…
Aquinas’ definition of law is very brief and straight-forward. Most lawyers and even college students will at least have heard tell of it. It reads: “Law is…
Thus far we have looked at three prominent thinkers who have offered us some ways to reform the multiversity so it can become an institution that pursues…
Sic enim est dispositio rerum in veritate, sicut in esse. - Saint Thomas, Contra Gentiles History: Truth and Being The work of Saint Thomas (1225-1274) absorbed…
The Ethiopian Campaign and French Political Thought. Yves R. Simon with Anthony O. Simon, ed., and Robert Royal, trans. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press,…
The humanists may well be right if they do not follow the classical philosophers in developing principles based on the bios theoretikos, or Christian thinkers into a…