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April 2017

April 19, 2017

How Did the Resurrection Historically Affect Reason?

Easter is over, but there are plenty reasons to reason out the resurrections relation to...

April 14, 2017

It’s a Good Friday to Leave Calypso’s Island

The specter of death haunts Western civilization at its roots like any other civilization. Greek and...

April 09, 2017

What is the History of the Coptic Christian Victims of the Egyptian Terrorist Bombings?

The rich diversity of rites has always been a hallmark of Christianity since long before...

March 2017

March 01, 2017

Don’t Give Up For Lent

To the outsider the season of Lent might seem like an irrational outbreak of Pelagianism....

February 2017

February 07, 2017

What Does Greek Philosopher Socrates Have to do with the Christian Saints?

The old question from Tertullian's Prescription Against the Heretics is "What does Athens have...

January 2017

January 18, 2017

Have You Tried Shutting Up?

It is better to remain silent and to be than to talk and not be....

May 2016

May 15, 2016

Pentecost Special: The Secret Old Testament Teaching on the Femininity of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit made unexpected feminine appearances in ancient Hebrew traditions. “I have told you...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

The Story of the Virgin Birth Runs with the Grain of Christianity

Mary Magdalene would not be a saint if, as Giles Fraser would have it, striving...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

The Subjectivism of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Yesterday we placed the ancient philosophical analogue, not to be confused with an "equivalent," of...

April 2015

April 04, 2015

Death as an Object of Faith II: To Live Facing Holy Saturday

What follows is a longread essay by Dariusz Karlowicz that appeared in his award-winning Polish-language...

April 03, 2015

Holy Saturday: Death as an Object of Faith

What follows is a longread essay by Dariusz Karlowicz that appeared in his award-winning Polish-language...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Rahner’s Biblical Notion of Anonymous Christianity During Holy Week

Holy Week is the most sacred holiday on the Christian calendar. It commemorates the final...

March 19, 2015

Those Christians Who Think there is an Atheist Worldview Deserve a Tinfoil Hat

The post "John Gray: Waiting for an Atheist Morality is Like Waiting for Godot" sparked something...

March 03, 2015

Even Demons Believe: Converting the World Will NOT Make Everyone Holy

Last week I wrote about the one novel you need to read this year. Now...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

The Catholic Valentine’s Creepier than 50 Shades

On this Valentine's Day I'd like to remind you that Catholicism is creepy. Yesterday afternoon I...

February 03, 2015

The Missionary Positions of the Hitchens Family: On Cosmic Delusions

The Hitchens family is well known for its missionary positions. Christopher Hitchens was so hellbent...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Why Study Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise?

As great as John Milbank is, there are plenty of other great things going on...

January 25, 2015

St. Socrates: Philosophy’s Permanent Ties to Theology

Dominique Janicaud has spent the great part of his academic career attempting to somewhat belligerently...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

Two Nativities? Can You Divine the Original Christmas Story?

Margaret Barker sure knows how to set up an argument. She goes all out in...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

Hermann, Max, Woody and Falling Out of the Ordo Amoris

Yesterday we discussed Woody Allen as a liminal personality stuck somewhere between belief and disbelief. Being...

September 14, 2014

The Empire Strikes Back: Feast of the Holy Cross

It's easy to forget the Feast of the Holy Cross is a consummate Constantinian feast....

September 03, 2014

Christ Is No Longer On Top

The reactions to yesterday's intentionally provocative post on the centrality of the resurrection of the...

July 2014

July 09, 2014

Barker’s First Temple Fireworks: Christianity, Judaism, Islam

The ISIS attempts at reestablishing the caliphate are getting much press of late. They...

May 2014

May 21, 2014

Saint Socrates: What Damon Linker Got Wrong About Philosophy

When translating the book Socrates and Other Saints I learned that Erasmus, among others, called Socrates a...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

The Early Church's Choice Between Neoplatonism & Neoplatonism

There is nothing to be embarrassed by the overlaps between Christianity and other world religions....

March 2014

March 16, 2014

Bye-Bye Hypatia Science Martyr?

Continuing in a demythologizing vein I'd like to debunk the picture of Hypatia of Alexandria...

February 2014

February 18, 2014

Imaging God Badly

How does the dynamism of analogy reflect itself in the ways we go about imaging...

June 2013

June 16, 2013

Rabelaisian Catholicism Redux or: How to Keep the Church Impure

Yesterday's post discussed (here) how early Christian theology was fundamentally "polluted" by the Greek tradition...

June 12, 2013

Supersessionism: Two for the Price of One?

Debates about supersessionism frequently flare up in America between evangelicals (generally pro) and mainliners (generally...

June 07, 2013

Constantine, Socrates, and Other Saints

So far this blog has spent some time on unpopular causes by exploring recent historical...