Father Edward Oakes, S.J., distinguished theologian, gifted writer and teacher, generous ecumenist, and our friend, has died, of pancreatic cancer, at 8:00 this morning. The announcement from the Academy of Catholic Theology, of which Father Oakes was president, reports: Father Oakes entered . . . . Continue Reading »
Phillip , thanks for these profound reflections on how Genesis reveals what is distinct about human sexuality. Your central observation that “mutual help and companionship,” rather than reproduction, is what makes human sexuality distinctively human is urgently relevant to our efforts . . . . Continue Reading »
Compare Patrick Deneen on Pope Francis with Adam Shaw on Pope Francis. The titles are similar, the content very different. . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’m out in her in Claremont for a conference on Strauss and Burke—or what Strauss says about Edmund Burke to close NATURAL RIGHT AND HISTORY. For anyone who REALLY checks out what he says there, it’s the strangest part of a strange book. Obvious points that might . . . . Continue Reading »
Holiday Shopping and the Class Divide Brandon McGinley, Acculturated Casuistry and Torture Aaron Taylor, Ethika Poltika Bursting the Hirshhorn’s Bubble Bruce Cole, New Criterion Would Someone Just Shut That Pope Up? Patrick J. Deneen, American Conservative How to Make Walking Cool Wayne . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s striking—or it should be—that Genesis does not mention “male and female” until it comes to the human creation (1:27). Before that there’s seed bearing fruit and the blessing of procreation, “be fruitful and multiply,” which establishes the sexual reproduction of the beasts of . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Thursday! Here’s what we have for you today. Peter Leithart is reading about: Cornelius Van Til , the humanity of Christ, Ukraine , and bodies . Dr. Boli gets into the posters-for-your-dentist’s-office game . Here at First Thoughts , Phillip Cary writes about what God did not find . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a striking omission from the Hebrew text of Genesis 1, on the second day of creation. It is the day when God creates Heaven, and the omission is that he does not see it as good. Every other day of creation has God seeing that his work is good, but not this one. The omission is so striking . . . . Continue Reading »
Just in time for the Christmas Wars, the Journal of Catholic Legal Studies has published papers from a symposium on state-sponsored religious displays that the Center for Law and Religion co-sponsored with our our sister school, the Libera Universita Maria SS Assunta (LUMSA), in Rome . . . . Continue Reading »
Dude, Where’s My Being? Ed Feser In Search of Humanism Among the Primates Phillip Sherman, Marginalia Literature and Bureaucracy Tim Parks, New York Review of Books The Intellectual Civil War within Evangelicalism Tiffany Stanley, Religion & Politics Fear of Priests, Nuns Storming Embassy . . . . Continue Reading »
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