Maurin called socialism the offspring of capitalism. In his eyes, both capitalism and socialism regard money as the basis of reality. But to Peter Maurin, the person was the basis of reality. The development and cultivation of the human spirit—rather than economic development—would create a new society.

James Murphy and Renée Roden on Peter Maurin’s life and philosophy for our forum on Personalism and the Catholic Worker

The past cannot confirm what we say of it; there are always details left in silence, despite our best efforts; whispers that are barely legible; haunting echoes that quietly ripple through time.

Zaccary A. Haney on identity and history

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

[T]here is something of enduring significance in the fact that Las Casas’ protest was rooted in his return to the scholastic tradition of Christian reason, and particularly in the work of Thomas Aquinas.

Euan Grant responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

Kierkegaard is the thinker that overcomes the systemic optimism of Hegel with meaning and morality actualized by personal commitment to truth, goodness, and beauty.

Chris L. Firestone responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

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

Viewed in this way, surely one of the paradigmatic examples of “modernity talk” is the distinction between BC and AD—particularly if we pair it with the notion of a New Testament and an Old Testament.

Thomas A. Lewis responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

As my colleague Pui-Him Ip and I were planning the Theological Genealogies of Modernity conference, which took place in 2021, we wanted to shed light on certain basic issues regarding genealogies of modernity.

Darren Sarisky on his recent work for Modern Theology

There are few better introductions to this deeply creative theological mind.

Alex Irving’s response to Darren Sarisky’s recent article in Modern Theology

The story of rupture is often told by innovative women.

Christine Helmer and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft on “genderealogy”

In the coming months, Genealogies of Modernity will be publishing a series of response pieces to articles from Theological Genealogies of Modernity, a special issue of Modern Theology edited by Darren Sarisky, Pui-Him Ip, and Austin Stevenson.

The Hedgehog Review interviews Ryan McDermott

How do we adopt tradition without being duped by misinterpretation?

An interview with Anne Carpenter

What I'm interested in are those discourses [...] which seem to be interested in negotiating with Christianity, but actually want to overcome it on narrative grounds.

A podcast interview with Cyril O’Regan

How it is that the Christian past can be present here and now when it travels to us in the medium of a historical process not only fraught and irregular, but so often saturated with evil and sin?

Jonathan Heaps reviews Nothing Gained is Eternal

If time is only contingencies, then Christians will lose their way in time. But if time is a place in which the eternal emerges, then there is a path for Christian thinking within a liturgical life.

Terence Sweeney resists the modern flattening of time

Ultimately, the council majority was victorious: anti-Modernist doctrinal documents failed to achieve a ‘controlling function’ at the Council.

Shaun Blanchard on leaving anti-modernism behind

Understanding how anti-Modernism was evoked and how anti-Modernist critiques were rebutted sheds light on Vatican II as a fundamental shift in the relationship between Catholicism and modernity.

Shaun Blanchard on Modernism and Vatican II

Human history is human above all other things, and human beings are not merely predictable. And that is why we should be cautious in our trend-spotting and forecasting.

Duncan Reyburn on Chesterton and the wobbliness of time