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February 2015

February 05, 2015

Jean-Luc Marion: Does Silencing Love Mean Philosophy is a Misnomer?

The everyday ramifications of reading are a constant preoccupation of mine. I like to believe...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

Milosz Mentors Merton on Manichaeism & the Modern Mind

It is fashionable to dump upon Thomas Merton. He seems to have been too open...

January 29, 2015

How is Aquinas so Premodern That He’s Postmodern?

If you hang around enough weird overeducated people, then you've probably heard the phrase "He's...

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...

January 16, 2015

Beauty, Postmodernism, and Vodka: Gregory Wolfe Interview Preview

Gregory Wolfe has spent half a lifetime saying "Beauty will save the world." Czeslaw Milosz...

January 13, 2015

From Napoleon to Bin Laden: France and Modern Terrorism

Like amber national anthems preserve monstrosities from the past. Frequently this past humbles the clean self-image...

January 10, 2015

Houellebecq: Charlie Hebdo Coverboy Maps Faith’s Manifestations

Michel Houellebecq is on the front cover of this week's edition of Charlie Hebdo. It...

January 06, 2015

Reenchantment: Atheist PZ Myers Attempts to Confess Bias, FAILS

If you didn't notice Saturday evening I ran a confirmation bias experiment on my coreligionists (many, if not...

January 05, 2015

I Have Met Many Secular Bigots (Calasso on Sacrifice)

It's a big deal any time Roberto Calasso releases a book, because his books always...

January 01, 2015

A Feast of Circumfession: TOP10 Reading Standouts From 2014

Today was formerly known as the Feast of the Circumcision. Due to sleep deprivation I...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Christianity Does Not Endeavor to Save Christianity

The Lumen Christi Institute is devoted to promoting the depth and breadth of Catholic culture...

December 16, 2014

Ruined by Books: TOP10 Catholic Studies Books

Some time ago I started a series of topical TOP10 lists. I got as far...

November 2014

November 01, 2014

MacIntyre: What the Natural Sciences Do Not Explain

I am going through a bit of a MacIntyre renaissance of late. I've realized the...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

What We Want is a Spirituality of Wiping Bottoms and Breastfeeding!

Yesterday's post featured Alasdair MacIntyre discussing how much the philosophical tradition has ignored the dependencies...

October 22, 2014

MacIntyre’s Revelatory Argument About Disability

There is nothing like the thrill of discovering a new vein of thought. The only...

October 07, 2014

Every Gun n’ Rose Has Its Thorn

After driving Dominik to kindergarten I took the girls for a spin around the block...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

On Not Fighting Matt Walsh’s Cultural Warrior Contagion

Let me be clear, I can only read Matt Walsh's constant emoting one paragraph at...

September 23, 2014

Ruined by Books 2: My TOP10 Philosophy List

Today, as promised in last week's TOP10 novel list, we continue on my semi-autobiographical experiment in book...

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 10, 2014

Atheism’s Ancient Creation Myth

The cardinal rule for writing a book is starting out strong with a memorable story,...

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...

September 02, 2014

FACT: Christians DON’T Believe in the Immortality of the Soul

I'm sure you've spent many a night in college, arguing over a beer, or over...

August 2014

August 19, 2014

Phenomenology, the Anxieties of Life, and the Mystery of Hope

It's finally time to write a post here at Patheos. I've kept busy the past...

August 07, 2014

How Husserl Changed Catholic Attitudes Toward Judaism

One of the guiding threads of Gubser's book on the Central European origins of phenomneology...

August 05, 2014

The Central European and Social Heart of Phenomenology

Contemporary philosophical movements are not known for connecting on a practical level with Catholics. Catholics...

July 2014

July 15, 2014

The Ultimate (2x TOP10) Summer Theology Reading List!

The publishing world didn't stop just because I piled on one more dissertation into the...

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...

May 07, 2014

Science Doesn't Think: Neil deGrasse Tyson Busts a Move on Philosophy

There are so many temptations to keep writing my dissertation uninterrupted instead of blogging, but...