The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
Petrarch's Augustinian View from Mont Ventoux
Petrarch was a founder of an alternative modernity, which emphasizes the compatibility between the ancients and medievals by adhering to the traditional prioritizing of the contemplative over the active.
Michael Krom on spiritual ascents
Augustine, Violence, and the Novelty of Machiavelli
Machiavelli follows Augustine by demythologizing violence, stripping it of the gloss of legend and heroism. He departs from him by adding that it is necessary, excusable, and worthy of imitation.
Brian Harding on violence and political reality
The Ecology of a Different Modernity
A new modernity will be marked by a different account of the good life with a different set of shared loves. Kate Soper shows that underneath our tawdry love of stuff there are deeper, more interesting loves.
Terence Sweeney reviews Post-Growth Living and finds in it a counter-modern modernity
Resisting the Modern Desire for Dominance
Fratelli Tutti offers an alternative to such modern forms of domination and points to fraternal service as a way of countering its love of money, the desire that so often presents itself as development.
Trevor Williams reviews Pope Francis’s latest encyclical
Relearning How to Read
Ultimately, nobody is interested in hermeneutics and intertextuality for their own sake … but everyone wants to know what is real and how we should live, and if books can help us there, interpretation becomes intensely interesting.
Kathryn Mogk rediscovers reading with Augustine.