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…
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…
Matters of faith, philosophy, and theology were the center of intellectual debate at the beginning of the modern era. A previous age of traditions and institutions was…
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to examine the legacy of Moses as a political leader in search of political order. The Mosaic conflict with the…
In his classic work A Secular Age, Charles Taylor argued that the shift away from religious and toward a secular worldview turns not sheerly on scientific, but…
Papal writings concerning democracy and economics have occasioned much confusion and debate in the period following the close of the Second Vatican Council, especially since the ascension…
Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers. Geoffrey M. Vaughan, ed. Washington D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2018. “Strauss embraced classical philosophy over religious faith, not as a…
The mystery of the liturgy coincides totally with the mystery of operativity - Giorgio Agamben In my opinion, Giorgio Agamben is the most important contemporary European…
It will be useful to return to the theme of time and space, which we noted in our second chapter on the New Testament materials. We recall…
We have endeavored to practice the craft of biblical interpretation along the lines of our participative approach, on the premise that all forms of interpretation might be…
Readers will likely know that Jesus studies and Christology, like other fields of study, exist within an intense conflict of approaches, stemming from the social and historical…
What was most surprising to you as this book’s author? There may yet be further surprises for me as time passes and I think back upon it.…
Your Kin-dom Come: The Lord’s Prayer in a Global Age. William Thompson-Uberuaga. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2018. The purpose of this book, William Thompson-Uberuaga tells us…
As socialism ascends in popularity across the western world, many are infatuated with the promises it offers. According to a recent Gallup poll, among the Democratic Party,…
Pope Francis, in his wise reflections on holiness in Gaudete et Exsultate (“Rejoice and Be Glad”), discusses Gnosticism and Pelagianism as “two subtle enemies of holiness.” The…
Every theory of doctrinal development assumes a philosophy of history; this is the basic proposition which colors the following essay. But though I think it is true,…