The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
White Evangelicalism, Gun Control, and Fall Narratives
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
Las Casas and the Primacy of Truth
[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
What is Genealogy? A Philosopher’s Response
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
Trinitarian Genealogies: Father, Son, and the Spirit of Modernity
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
Genealogy, Modernity, and Christianity Talk
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
A Rejoinder to Irving
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
A Response to Darren Sarisky on T. F. Torrance
There are few better introductions to this deeply creative theological mind.
Alex Irving’s response to Darren Sarisky’s recent article in Modern Theology
From Subjectivity to Recognition: Genderealogy and Paradigm Shift
The story of rupture is often told by innovative women.
Christine Helmer and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft on “genderealogy”
Series Announcement: Theological Genealogies of Modernity
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.
Hedgehog Noontime Discussion with Ryan McDermott
The Hedgehog Review interviews Ryan McDermott
Is Tradition Compatible with Critique?
How do we adopt tradition without being duped by misinterpretation?
An interview with Anne Carpenter
Is Modernity Haunted by Gnostic Ghosts?
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
Gaining the Eternal
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
Living in Liturgical Time
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
Vatican II’s Departure from the Anti-Modernist Paradigm: Part II
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
Vatican II’s Departure from the Anti-Modernist Paradigm
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
History Wobbles
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
On Divine Space
There is a genealogical case to be made that the solidity of the modern scientific world picture may have been unwittingly grounded upon a theistic metaphysic.
JD Lyonhart on Henry More and the origins of modern space
Eschatological Resurrection and Historical Liberation
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”