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April 2014

April 25, 2014

Why I Thank Goodness For (Some) Atheists!

“I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some...

April 23, 2014

James K.A. Smith: Seeking Transcendence in a Secular Age

Isn't it strange how life seems to offer almost as many connections as a...

April 22, 2014

Charles Taylor: The State of Religion in a Secular Age (Firth Lectures)

If you've missed the discussions surrounding Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, then you've been living...

April 15, 2014

He Emptied Himself: A Kenosis Reading List

Thanks to repetition and the familiarity it breeds Palm Sunday's second reading, as probably with...

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....

December 2013

December 09, 2013

Between the Icon and the Idol: What and Before Whom We Have Bowed?

Artur Mrówczyński-Van Allen is director of the Slavic Department at the International Center for the...

December 03, 2013

Praying to a French God: Phenomenology as Catholic Philosophy

This is a continuation of yesterday's post on Catholicism and contemporary French philosophy. If you're...

December 02, 2013

Derrida and Theology + Phenomenology as Catholic Philosophy = The French Theological Turn

If we apply the principle of "Ye shall know them by their fruits," then it...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

Something Fleshy and Earthly: A Phenomenology of Christian Life

I'm a sucker for opening salvos in books. If you can pull me into a...

September 2013

September 05, 2013

Christianity Is Neither a Monotheism Nor a Religion of the Book (Remi Brague)

This blog began with a series of posts debunking some common myths about Christianity. There...

September 03, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 4: Heidegger’s Nietzschean Sideburns

Due to a late night bout of copy-editing I am not able to write the...

August 2013

August 07, 2013

What Does Love Know?

Jean-Luc Marion is a Catholic philosopher, some say the greatest living philosopher, who studied under...

July 2013

July 24, 2013

Eternity in a Dunghill: Infinity and Perspective

You've no doubt encountered Blake's "Auguries of Innocence." It begins with: To see a world...