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January 2015

January 28, 2015

Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Today is the Feast Day of Thomas Aquinas, and by extension of all theologians. Since...

January 28, 2015

Be The [Liturgical] Change

Do you ever notice how at a talk when there's a Q&A, there will always...

January 27, 2015

Mass Appeal and the Rigorous Priest

A long long time ago I watched the play Mass Appeal, excellently acted in Paris by...

January 27, 2015

Thomas Aquinas, The Last Ancient Philosopher

In a previous post about philosophy and the existence of God, I made a couple points....

January 26, 2015

The Sign of Peace And Liturgical Rorschach Tests

When it comes to the Liturgy, I'm decidedly a "conservative," a Benedict man through and...

January 24, 2015

“Professor Shocked, Shocked To Find Out Prominent Nazi Was An Anti-Semite”

I apologize for the snarky headline, but sometimes it can't be helped. The chair of...

January 24, 2015

Marian Devotion As The Best Christian Answer To Modernity

In, I think, Atheist Delusions (my review here) David Bentley Hart makes the following argument: that...

January 24, 2015

Penal Substitutionary Atonement And Covenant Curses

This morning I woke up thinking about that podcast I did on the theory of penal substitutionary...

January 24, 2015

If Your Biblical Theology Contradicts Dogmatic Theology, It’s Bad Biblical Theology

One frustrating aspect of theological discussion is the opposition that we too often find between dogmatic theology...

January 23, 2015

How Do We Relate To Jesus?

As frequent readers will know, I'm often wary of drawing facile antinomies between "Modernity" and "Christianity"...

January 22, 2015

Papal Infallibility As An Instrument Of Unity

The common misconception about the doctrine of Papal infallibility is that the Pope can say...

January 21, 2015

Courtly Love And “The Traditional Family”

Over the Christmas break, I read C.S. Lewis's The Allegory of Love (my first Lewis book!...

January 15, 2015

Examining A Proposal On Orthodox-Catholic Unity

We can debate the filioque and the Quartodeciman Controversy all day. What are some specific...

January 15, 2015

David Hume Against The New Atheism

When I did was invited to the Theologues podcast on the New Atheism, I was asked...

January 14, 2015

You Should Go To Church, Even If You Don’t Believe In God (After All You Might Meet Him)

My old pal David Sessions, who was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household and is now...

January 14, 2015

Meister Eckhart And The Noble Man

One theme in Meister Eckhart's writings is the noble man as the figure of the...

January 14, 2015

The Theophany And The God Who Wants To Be Laid Hands On

I wanted to write this earlier in the week but the Charlie Hebdo events have...

January 13, 2015

Listen to Leah Libresco Pick Fights In Good Faith

You know Leah Libresco is awesome, right? Right. Well, now she has a radio show,...

January 08, 2015

Guard The Deposit Of The Faith Undefiled: Burn Santa

Today I learned (link in French, sorry), that on December 23rd, 1951 the diocese of Dijon had Santa...

January 07, 2015

The Amazing Incuriosity Of The New Atheists

Fellow Patheosi Hemant Mehta, the "Friendly Atheist", covers a new atheist book: How “God” Works: A Logical...

January 06, 2015

Virtue Ethics As The Hole-Plugger For Deontological Ethics

Most moral philosophy proceeds by way of thought experiments, like the (in)famous trolley problem. Virtue ethicists,...

January 03, 2015

Some Propositions On The “New Homophiles”

Some background: while most conservative Christians have applauded the so-called "New Homophile" movement of celibate...

January 02, 2015

Descartes’ Ontological Argument And What It Means For How We Understand Philosophy

The ontological argument is the red-headed stepchild of philosophical arguments for the existence of God....

January 01, 2015

Why It Matters That The Bible Was Written By Human Beings

Of the three "great religions of the Book" two of them claim that their Sacred...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

The Window Into The New Atheist Mind

A recurrent theme in the whole simmering "New Atheist" controversy is the question of the...

December 22, 2014

Il est né…

It doesn't take me more than ten seconds to cry if I think about the...

December 21, 2014

The Macabre Bleakness Of The Santa “Magic” Line

As you know (oh yeah! still beating that dead horse!) one of the most frequent...

December 18, 2014

Podcast on Penal Substitutionary Atonement

The nice guys at Mere Fidelity put up the podcast in which I was privileged to...

December 18, 2014

Book Review: Joseph Ratzinger, “Milestones”

When people talk about Joseph Ratzinger, the theologian, what most often goes mentioned is his erudition...

December 16, 2014

Reminder: The Red Army Choir Does Christmas Music Now

I listen to Christmas music basically non-stop during Advent (shut up Advent police) and Christmas....