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May 2014

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...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

The Consequences of Real-Existing Capitalism for Fertility

This is an extension of the line of argument I began in "No More Throne...

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 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 20, 2014

Resurrection Sunday: Whoever Believes That Should Not Behave as We Do

“Christ is risen.” Whoever believes thatShould not behave as we do,Who have lost the up,...

April 19, 2014

Holy Saturday: Death is Here to Teach us Something

Yesterday I happened upon a PBS interview with the poet Christian Wiman author of the acclaimed...

April 17, 2014

Catholiclandia: Solidarity Means Carrying One Another's Burden

Maundy Thursday usually has people twittering about whose carefully cultivated stinky feet will get...

April 16, 2014

What Do We Make of a Disturbingly Radical Papacy?

There are papacies and there are radical papacies. Nobody notices the really radical papacies, because...

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 10, 2014

Why Be So Harsh on George Weigel? Because of What Weigel Said.

I've penned an Immigration Manifesto with Sam Rocha over at Ethika Politika. Our displeasure 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....

March 2014

March 12, 2014

Lost in the Cosmos: Why Does Space Leave Us Cold?

Once in a while you run across a thread that nearly makes all those hours...

March 04, 2014

Larry Chapp: Christianity is the Most Worldly Religion of All

Part II of Larry Chapp's interview with me is now available here on Ethika Politika. A...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

I Don't Believe in an Interventionist God

The first part of Larry Chapp's interview is up right here on Ethika Politika. May...

February 27, 2014

Understanding the Mechanics of the Incarnation? Larry Chapp Interview

Today brings you an excerpt from an interview I recently conducted with theologian Larry Chapp....

February 26, 2014

Quick Catholic Ch-Ch-Ch Changes: Pope Francis Does a Phil Jenkins

It seems that the changes in the Catholic Church under Pope Francis are proving Philip...

February 13, 2014

The Epochal Break of the Romantic Imagination

Valentine's Day is around the corner and it's difficult to avoid talking about something romantic....

January 2014

January 29, 2014

TOP10 New and Noteworthy Theology Books

"For many years I used to think I had been born too late. Fascinating times,...

January 25, 2014

What if Judith Butler was Ockham's God?

Judith Butler's account of love makes her sound like some fickle nominalist God who not...

January 24, 2014

Everything Under the S(u/o)n: Von Balthasar's and Milosz's God Metaphors

Writing really is a process of discovery, a form of thinking. You don't know what...

January 22, 2014

Abortion, Natural Law, and Antisemitism?

This is the ancient history behind present day hot-button issues. The plurality of stances possible...

January 16, 2014

The Taciturn God of the New Testament

I broached the theme of silence in my last post in an extended quote from...

January 12, 2014

God, Cosmos, Humankind, and Woman

Before getting totally side-tracked by the silly Zmirak controversy I meant to write about...

January 01, 2014

The Pope’s Sympathy for the Devil

The pope's resurrection of Devil talk is one of the most appealing aspects of his...

December 2013

December 21, 2013

Christmas Carols from the DSM-5

Our kids have left a copy of Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death under the Christmas...

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 06, 2013

Von Balthasar: Into the Dark Advent with God

Something that happened a few days ago warmed my worried heart a bit. The University...

December 04, 2013

A Discomfiting Advent and the Comforts of Atheism

Consolation used to have a pivotal place in philosophy. This was not only the case...

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...