Why the Roman Empire Was an Empire Like No Other
What made the Roman Empire an empire like no other was that it alone was the city that became an empire. Its distinctively republican civic form became…
The Incarnation of Truth and Love
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” The gospel of St. John is the most poetic of…
Christianity’s Home in Homelessness
The history of Western philosophy may be but a footnote on Plato, but the history of the whole of Western philosophy, theology, politics, science, art, and the…
The Classics and Christianity
Why study old books? How do dusty old books written by dead men and women thousands of years ago grow my faith? Such can be common thoughts…
Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom
Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom. Robert Louis Wilken. New Haven: Yale University Press 2019. Religious liberty, toleration, and the…
John Locke on “The Reasonableness of Christianity”
The question this essay posits might seem somewhat straightforward: What is meant by the term “reasonable” when Locke described Christianity by this term in his 1695 work,…
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…
