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November 2016

November 22, 2016

Podcast: On the Catholicism of “Daredevil”

Readers may be aware that, periodically, The Divine Wedgie gets together with lecturers at Campion College Australia...

October 2016

October 04, 2016

Desire & Idolatry: After Debating

Elections come, elections go, but the media stands firm forever... Whilst another electoral debate has...

September 2016

September 11, 2016

The Tenacity of Tradition

The so called Age of Enlightenment, especially after Kant and Hegel, had a standard catch...

August 2016

August 15, 2016

Assumption: Personalising the Eschaton

The Austrian political philosopher Eric Voegelin, in spite of his championing of a participation in...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Out Now: The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

A previous post mentioned the imminent arrival of Matthew Tan's second book, Redeeming Flesh: the...

July 08, 2016

Free Symposium: Economy, Idolatry and Secularisation with William T. Cavanaugh (11th July)

Readers in the Sydney area might be interested to know that the University of Notre...

June 2016

June 05, 2016

Homesickness for Alien Places

There are times when, after coming back from a sojourn overseas, we start pining for...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

Post-Materialism, Sacramentality & Marketing

A friend on social media once wondered out loud why a big telecommunications company would...

May 15, 2016

Discerning Before Utopia

This post was spurred on by two things, a class given on discernment at Campion...

May 07, 2016

Prayer After “The World Spins Madly On”

Almighty God, You moved your servant to listen to "The World Spins Madly On" by...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

Hangry Eyes: Our Ravenous Seeing

Eric Carmans Hungry Eyes is an awfully corny song which, combined to the dance moves and...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

The Lord’s Descent into Hell

Below is an excerpt from an ancient Holy Saturday Homily entitled "The Lord's Descent into...

March 20, 2016

Dance & Transcendance

There is something uncanny about the subgenre of electronica broadly called "dance music". In sample...

March 07, 2016

A Sin Called Sadness

In the reading of Scripture, we are familiar with the exhortations against committing specific sins....

February 2016

February 15, 2016

New Essay: Sarah Coakley and the Prayers of the Digital Body of Christ

Janice McCrandal, lecturer in theology at Trinity Theological College in Brisbane, has edited a new...

January 2016

January 24, 2016

When a Dead Body Attends Mass

One morning, probably due to a combination of liturgical illiteracy and bad timing, a coffin...

December 2015

December 21, 2015

Mary’s Visitation & the Ark of the Covenant

The Gospel in the Lectionary for the Fourth Sunday of Advent recounts the visitation by...

December 01, 2015

Lament as Neo-Genesis

In a previous post, mention was made of a quote by St. Isaac the Syrian,...

November 2015

November 22, 2015

Fascism, Simulation & Christ the King

In 1925, Pope Pius XI instituted the solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of...

November 09, 2015

The Dedication of St. John Lateran: Temple, Market & Apocalypse

The Gospel reading for the liturgy marking the feast of the dedication of the Basilica...

August 2015

August 07, 2015

The Liturgy of Hiroshima

In Theopolitical Imagination, William Cavanaugh described the nation state as a parody of the Church, with...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

The Media as Liturgy

A recent Spirit in the City day conference at the Queensland University of Technology featured the...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

The Eucharist & the Zombie Apocalypse

Many often talk about cities as being soul destroying, whether it is in reference to...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

Advent and the Comings of Christ

Amidst the onslaught of tinsel, Christmas sales, exhortations by ostensibly Christian politicians to spend more...

October 2014

October 10, 2014

The Ecclesiology of the Trisagion Hymn

In the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, used in both the Catholic and Orthodox...

August 2014

August 15, 2014

The Fathers and the Assumption of Mary

Today, the Roman Catholic Church marks the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, which...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

The Ascension of God and Divinisation of Man

We tend to think of the Resurrection as both the culmination as well as the...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

Adam on Good Friday

At this time, the Church celebrates the passion of its founder, Jesus Christ. The events...

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...

October 2013

October 03, 2013

“St Evagrius of Pontus and Redeeming Time in Postmodernity” on The Other Journal

An essay by the Divine Wedgie's Matthew Tan was published on the American postmodern theological...