Beyond the impasse
In the Analogical Turn, Johannes Hoff’s chief argument is that at the very birth of modern times, Nicholas of Cusa offered a path-not-taken, one definitively forward-looking.
Radner: Figuring Out Time
Radner's book on figural exegesis is a gift to the Church, and warrants serious, sustained attention by pastors and scholars alike.
Spiritual beauty
The creative and appreciative urge are the work of the Holy Spirit, which always has one job in a human life — to make us the creatures God intends.
In the footsteps of the historical Benedict
Monasticism was born, not out of the moral or governmental failures of a late Roman state, but (ironically) out of Christian political success.
Understanding our embodiment
We have been encouraged in the modern, post-transition age to lose a sense of narrative in our humanity.
The strange endurance of torture
The “logic” of torture, that “it was okay to torture the guilty,” continued in Chicago policing at least into the 1970s.
The Rule of Benedict: Opting for Christian community
At the deepest level, the world needs for the Church to “be the Church.”
Liturgy of the ordinary
The ordinariness of the day is not something to be skipped over in favor of some shining, imaginary future.