Litter-Picking the Teacher’s Soul for Contemplative Pursuits
A number of years ago, I abandoned a secure, well-paying high school teaching position and took up a job picking litter for the city’s Roads Department. At…
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 Fisher-Price God: A Call to Childlike Play
But let us ever praise him, and extol His bounty, following our delightful task To prune these growing Plants, and tend these Flow’rs, Which were it toilsome,…
Beauty and the Imagination
Why is a sentence from C.S. Lewis delightful while an equally true statement by another, ordinary writer, is not? “I believe in Christianity as I believe the…
The Symphony of Beauty and Love in the Garden
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” – Aldo…
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…
Bruce Springsteen, An American Odyssey
Bruce Springsteen’s recent intimate gig, Springsteen On Broadway, digs deep into the life and lines of The Boss. As I followed along, one of the key themes…
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…
The Thomistic Roots of Vatican II Humanism
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…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Erotic Theology (Part VI)
In part five of this essay we looked closely at the forgotten early modern Platonic thinkers Giordano Bruno, Ralph Cudworth and Anne Conway and their theories of…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Love and Violence (Part V)
In this fifth part of the essay I would like to consider what a Platonic speculative realism might tell us about Eros – desire in all its…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: The Strange Curse of the Ages of the World (Part IV)
In part one of this essay we looked closely at Voegelin’s debts to the process philosophers A. N. Whitehead, William James and Henri Bergson. Nonetheless, there is…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Catherine Pickstock and the Return of Platonic Cosmology (Part III)
In part one of this essay we looked at Eric Voegelin’s debts to the process thinkers A.N. Whitehead, William James and Henri Bergson. In part 2 we…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Haunted Ontologies and Different Modes of Existence (Part II)
As we saw at the end of part one of this essay Voegelin’s anti-foundationalism is obviously something of a fragile and quixotic venture. Steven McGuire is not…
