Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose early work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) deeply influenced the Vienna Circle, initially provided a philosophical foundation for their …
Why Aren’t Catholic Colleges the Best at the Liberal Arts?
The recent U.S. News and World Report rankings include a list of the best liberal arts colleges. It is a …
God’s Delight as Comfort and Challenge: Pope Francis on the Heart of Jesus
The title of Pope Francis’s encyclical Dilexit Nos (2024) can be translated “He loved us,” but we would do better …
Beyond Faith and Reason: Knowing God Through Loving Him
I Our vocabulary offers us two words: “faith” and “reason.” And we step quickly from the existence of words to …
The Real Rendered More Precise: On the Theological Power of Film
On the opening page of The Theological Power of Film, James Lorenz explains that the work, an exercise in film-phenomenology, …
What Is Light?: Uncovering a Forgotten Chapter in French Intellectual History
Pope Francis has had a lot to say about technology in recent times, most notably in Laudato Si’. In that regard he …
The Mercy That Rebuilds: The Seven Last Words of Christ
Father, forgive them for they know not what they do Only God measures all the factors of the man who …
A Faithful Friend Is a Sturdy Shelter: Suffering, Isolation, and Friendship
The Isolation of Suffering Those enrolled in the School of Suffering often feel as though the school has but one …
The Perfume of an Empty Vase: The Rise and Fall of Evidential Religion
If modernity fancies itself the enlightened heir to a benighted past, Peter Harrison, thanks to his Some New World, is …
Nietzsche’s Will to Power and the Christian Will to Weakness
When I wrote a book about God and love, I chose for an epigraph a line from Friedrich Nietzsche’s polemic …