The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
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
Pearl Diving in the Archives
After all, isn’t that really what Ressourcement is? A turn to the sources of the past to bring more vitality, and even spiritual vitality, into the present.
Brenna Moore considers a genealogical return to forgotten sources
A Genealogist of Slavery Confronts the Archives
We can tell stories other than slavery’s violence, but does that extend dignity to enslaved, brutalized humans? Does a story ‘against the grain’ face down the thing the archive does (preserving violence and creating race)? Or does a story about the violence memorialize violence?
Maria Cecilia Ulrichson asks what Christian genealogy can learn in the archives
Marcionism as a Genealogical Category
Genealogy speaks of repetition—surprising repetitions—across historical periods and especially across the so-called hiatus between the modern and premodern world.
Cyril O’Regan looks to an old heresy to understand new problems
A Humble Genealogy: On Christian Hermeneutics
A covenantal genealogy is indexed toward a transcendent God, rather than to contingent historical objectives such as those integral to the immanent frame that Enlightenment rationality (mis)identifies as its exclusive and all-encompassing domain.
Thomas Pfau distinguishes different modes of genealogy
Discerning Genealogies: A Response to Thomas Pfau
The theological tradition requires self-critical appropriation, which must be capable of discerning what, having been passed down, is best forgotten and what is best remembered or re-presented for the Body of Christ today.
Antony Sciglitano looks for what truth can be found in genealogical methods
From Genealogy to a Hermeneutics of Tradition
The most compelling alternative to the twin perils of genealogy and fideism, radical immanence and radical transcendence, involves a hermeneutics of tradition.
Thomas Pfau develops a Christian Hermeneutics of Tradition
Nietzsche Was Not a Genealogist
Contrary to Foucault’s account of genealogy, Nietzsche characterizes his enterprise as the discovery of the true (singular) origin of intellectual and cultural phenomena. Genealogy, in his disparaging account, gets it wrong.
Ryan McDermott develops an answer to the question: what is genealogy?
Deep in History: On Christian Genealogical Thinking
“To apprehend the point of intersection of the timeless with time is the occupation of the saint.” -T.S. Eliot
A video conversation between Thomas Pfau, Brenna Moore, Cyril O’Regan, and Maria Cecilia Ulrickson