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January 2015

January 12, 2015

What Kierkegaard Knew About Charlie Hebdo

In an important guest post on Discourses on Liberty, Charles Taylor recalls a work...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

The False Completeness of the Sixth Day

In the book of Genesis, all of the created world "in all their array" is...

June 2014

June 11, 2014

The Love of Many Lands: An Augustinian Theology of Migrant Identity

The Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University recently held its 2014....

May 2014

May 15, 2014

Graphics and Augustine: the Lust to be Dominated

Newscasters have had a field day with the take up of the "#BringBackOurGirls" online campaign,...

February 2014

February 06, 2014

“Theology, Philosophy & the Mass” Part I: Epistemology

The Sydney-based internet radio station Cradio has this week released a podcast of the first...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Evil: Good’s Parasite

There is so much evil in the world. However, with the ubiquity of evil,...

December 2013

December 03, 2013

The Church and Popular Culture: DePaul Winter Course Offering

The Department of Catholic Studies at DePaul University is inviting enrollment into one of its...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Against Salvific Minimalism: Passion & Cosmos

Christians often adopt an anthropocentric conception of the purpose of the history of salvation. The...

August 2013

August 03, 2013

Why Plato Helps Christians in the Real World

Christians today often proudly declare their love for Aristotle. Catholics and a number of Protestants...

June 2013

June 06, 2013

Sacramental Commodities

At an introductory Theology class at Campion College, mention was made of a marketing campaign...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

Upcoming Event: Religious Vilification & Augustine’s Politics of Psalmody (29th May)

Campion College's political theology project, the Seminars in Political and Religious Life series, resume with...

March 2013

March 07, 2013

Do We Matter in Particular?

An excellent post on despair on Catholic Kung Fu, written by Marquette University's Anne Carpenter,...

January 2013

January 14, 2013

The Most Read Posts of 2012

Weekly updates and the resultant flood of information can make it difficult at times to...

November 2012

November 01, 2012

Refugees and the Politics of All Saints Day

The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday reported on the Australian government's proposal to excise all of...

September 2012

September 13, 2012

How Earthly was My City? A Tale of Two Augustines

The 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 11th September 2001 and the killing of...

September 06, 2012

Are Migrants More Sinful?

Towards the end of Book 2 of his Confessions, Augustine of Hippo wrote that one...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Why Theology Should Kneel

Fr. Robert Barron, in a recent installment of his Word on Fire series of Youtube...

August 16, 2012

The Ecclesiology of Getting the Flu

Mention was previously made of Augustine's notion of the City of God being on pilgrimage...

August 09, 2012

The City and Running Away in “Dexter”

A previous post suggested that Christian theology requires a more thorough exploration on the theme...

July 2012

July 20, 2012

Marian Epistemology

A previous post discussed the Pauline and Augustinian notion that we on this side of...

May 2012

May 18, 2012

On Deconstruction & Salvation

"Postmodern" is a dirty word for Christians. In many parts of Christendom, it is associated...

February 2012

February 10, 2012

The Epistemology of the Mass

In a culture dominated by the consumer mindset, many tend to treat the Mass as...

February 03, 2012

What is a Christian Revolution?

In the Old Testament, the prophecies in the Book of Daniel speak of a time...

January 2012

January 24, 2012

Secular Cathedrals, Darth Vader and Other Guest Posts

Below are a set of links to a number of guest posts written in the...

October 2011

October 01, 2011

We Know Because We Care: An Epistemology of Love

We have heard it all before, the rendering of 1 Corinthians 13 that is often...

May 2011

May 20, 2011

Practice, Identity and Amazonians

Friday's online edition of the BBC had a report about a fascinating, if somewhat controversial,...