Where is God in Suffering?
Where is God in Suffering? Brendan Purcell. Veritas Publications, Dublin, 2016. The apparent injustice of bad things happening to good people—as well as the reverse—has for…
Where is God in Suffering? Brendan Purcell. Veritas Publications, Dublin, 2016. The apparent injustice of bad things happening to good people—as well as the reverse—has for…
Since Voegelin has said that the reality of experience is self-interpretive, let’s turn this question around and ask, how did the earliest humans think about origins. I’ll…
As late as Nov 29, 1988, well into the Gorbachev period of "glasnost," Suslov’s successor and top party ideologist, Vadim Medvedev "confirmed Solzhenitsyn would remain on the…
The Human Voyage of Self-Discovery: Essays in Honour of Brendan Purcell. Brendan Leahy and David Walsh, eds. Dublin: Veritas Publications, 2013. In his contribution to this…
From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution. Brendan Purcell. New York: New City Press, 2012. This excellent book…
The Trinity and Love Perhaps Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most powerful single response to the Bolshevik coup d’état and consequent ideological revolution in Russia was his novel, In the…
This interview is in light of Brendan Purcell's essay, "Voegelin and Theology Today" on Fred Lawrence’s article, "Eric Voegelin: Mystical Philosopher and Scientist." Vv: Is there…
A Reflection of 20 Years I’ve been asked, in light of the contrasting interpretations of Jürgen Gebhardt and Paul Caringella, and Fred Lawrence’s article that works on…
The Foundations of the Scientific Method What we call the natural sciences emerged only in Western civilization which in turn was built on the experiences of Greek…
From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution. Brendan Purcell. New York: New City Press, 2012. Brendan Purcell’s From…
On this occasion we will consider the Encyclical Letter of John Paul II, Faith and Reason (Fides et ratio), which he released on September 15th, 1998. We…
My first contact with David Walsh was when I was working on my own MA a century ago. One of his big interests then was a love…
We shouldn't pretend that in the course of a short lecture we can establish a foundation for media ethics. But we can move towards a foundation if…
Michael Ruse, who has written extensively on evolution and philosophical issues, noted a few years ago that “Unfortunately, there is simply nothing in the literature by philosophers…
Since we are in Chicago,1 I’d like to start with some lines from Saul Bellow’s principal character. Albert Corde, a college dean in Chicago, says in represent the…