Democracy and That Other Sort of Man
"Thus the world is like an oil press: under pressure. If you are the dregs of the oil you are carried away through the sewer; if you…
Liberal Learning and the Great Christian Tradition
Liberal Learning and the Great Christian Tradition. Gary W. Jenkins and Jonathan Yonan, eds. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2015. In the forward, Stratford Caldecott claims that education…
We Are Not Our Own: Childhood in a Technological Age
Liberal culture’s anti-child practices are bound up with a logic of childlessness most basically defined in terms of a forgetfulness of being and its Origin and expressed…
The Postmodern “Christian” Theology of William Thompson-Uberuaga
History has an ineradicable place in Christian theology.[1] In the Judeo-Christian tradition, history is the “place” where God’s revelation and offer of salvation is made to human…
One Jesus for Jews, Another for Christians
I. Prospective and Perspective This article offers a revisualization of Jesus, not as a Christian diptych representing Jesus and Christ, the before-and-after-the-Crucifixion figures of conventional historical and…
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…
