Guns, in these contexts divorced from a practical function, have come to bear a symbolic meaning.

Catherine Yanko responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

The emphasis in Western Christianity has been placed upon individual fallenness and the need for a personal conversion, in contrast to the deeply collectivist culture in which Jesus originally spoke.

Jonathan Lyonhart responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

Nevertheless, not all Christmas traditions are comfortable or joyful—sometimes they are painful.

Jacob Martin offers a holiday reading of Ibsen

If the logos of self-giving love shapes all reality, the critical or creative struggle cannot possibly keep the central or even the last word.

Eduard Fiedler responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

For Maximus, evil occurs when we lend reality to a false way of being in the world…

Joseph Reigle on Jordan Wood’s The Whole Mystery of Christ

It is possible to frame the entire theological enterprise as an attempt to answer the following question: How does the Creator relate to creation?

Joseph Reigle on Jordan Wood’s The Whole Mystery of Christ

For some, Ireland is the archetype of Christianity’s decline in the wake of modern secularization. But is there a resurgence of theological and philosophical fervor in this traditionally Catholic country?

An interview with Gaven Kerr

Everyday life—that boring and mundane, trivial and profane measure of our existence—assumed tremendous significance when modern artists like Vermeer gave depth perception to our daily doings.

Joshua Hren on ordinary time in art and the Gospels

If we read Virgil’s works closely, we can see how he anticipates a Christian view of creation in his approach to the pastoral…. His vision of pastoral poetry is more Christian than classical.

Mary Grace Mangano on Virgil’s Christian approach to creation

The way to break the vicious cycle of Fascism and Anti-Fascism… is to embrace a more personalistic conception of the state which sees in the individual a meeting place of relationships of every kind.

Matthew Scarince on Christ Stopped at Eboli

Informed by Pärt’s own spirituality, ‘Passio’ participates in a wider musical exploration of Peter as emblematic of a fallenness redeemed and restored in relationship with God.

Victoria Costa on Arvo Pärt and Peter’s denial of Christ

The most pernicious problem is his political Nestorianism: he thinks that if politics is conventional or humanly constructed, it cannot be sacral or divine.

Matt Boulter reviews Simon Kennedy’s Reforming the Law of Nature

The complexities of premodern interfaith relations are explored in all their surprisingly human dimensions, avoiding the tragic obscuring of this history that has occurred as the result of modern traumas.

Philip Dorroll reviews Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East

Reading Smith’s “How to Inhabit Time” is itself a practice of spiritual timekeeping, granting the attentive reader a space and time in which to give herself over to reflection.

Caroline Arnold on living in hope

It is the realized and the not yet, an eschatology understood as historiosophy. The condition of dying without the finality of death, bathed always in the light of resurrection hope.

Sarah Livick-Moses reviews Bulgakov 'Sophiology of Death”

The unity and coherence of Christian tradition is derived from the antecedent finality of its futural fulfilment and can’t be secured by appeal to a procrustean deposit of faith perduring through history.

Jack Pappas reviews David Bentley Harts’s Tradition & Apocalypse

A Podcast interview with Brad Gregory on the sciences, Christianity, and way history shapes us.

To my surprise, I found Pope Francis a medievalist, St. Francis an eco-theologian, and a papal encyclical a work of literary ecocriticism.

Kathryn Mogk Wagner on medieval studies and ecocriticism

By demolishing the conflict thesis, the authors have reminded us that if we hope to make true progress, it will require disabusing ourselves of convenient narratives and embracing collaboration between faith and reason.

Zachary Stoltzfus reviews Of Popes and Unicorns

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film The Gospel According to St. Matthew presented Jesus in a uniquely modern way. Pasolini was an atheist, and his film didn’t glorify or sentimentalize the story of Jesus.

Arthur Aghajanian and Michael Marciel in conversation