The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
To Sing the Body: Art and the Personalistic Norm
"Yet the human person, standing at the crux of reality, calls the artist to the limit of his creative powers."
Daniel Fitzpatrick on "seeing" as a theological enterprise
The Gospel according to Convenience
Williams’ work is not just a historical treatise but a call to deep introspection about what it means to live out one’s faith amidst the pressures of any culture that has a different telos than one’s religion.
LuElla D'Amico reviews Nadya Williams’ latest work
Somebody Loves Us All: Hemingway and the Via Crucis
For all its parallels to Christ’s passion, The Old Man and the Sea is no allegory but something deeper, a tale which reveals how suffering may be spun into wisdom.
Daniel Fitzpatrick on Paschal elements in Hemingway
Americans, Our Guns, and Catholic Social Teaching
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
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
Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: A Forgotten Christmas Classic
Nevertheless, not all Christmas traditions are comfortable or joyful—sometimes they are painful.
Jacob Martin offers a holiday reading of Ibsen
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
The Whole Mystery of Christ: Part II
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
The Whole Mystery of Christ: Part I
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
The Surprising Future of Irish Christianity
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
In Search of Ordinary Time
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
Virgil, the Shepherd
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
Ruled by Different Rhythms
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
Peter in the Passion: Part I
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
Malforming the Law of Nature
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
Forgotten Histories of the Christian Middle East
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
Getting the Timing Right
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
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”
Tradition is Apocalyptic
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
Christ after 100,000 Years of Human History
A Podcast interview with Brad Gregory on the sciences, Christianity, and way history shapes us.