"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

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

Every spoken word was a pilgrim, in some sense, passing through the valley of the shadow of death.

Lauren Spohn ponders death from the dentist’s chair

Is it possible to critique secularism in a thoroughly secular age?

Ali Harfouch on alienation and the sublime

Lunn’s story illustrates the reality that one need not choose between being a “modern” and “classical” mountain enthusiast or between being an inventor or follower of tradition.

Margaret Sutton on the “something else“ we find in the mountains

Knowing a thing truly cannot exhaust the truth of the thing itself, its mystery, the meaning of its being, which consists of and can only be responded to with love.

John-Paul Heil responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

What does Silicon Valley have to do with Jerusalem?

An interview with Derek Shuurman

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

AI gives us information. It furnishes facts. It prompts us with news headlines. But could AI also answer our religious questions?

An interview with Shanen Boettcher

How do we adopt tradition without being duped by misinterpretation?

An interview with Anne Carpenter

How would you rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral? Are we justified in putting humans at the center of history?

An interview with Anne Carpenter

His experience was that poetry—Romantic poetry in particular—had the potential to expand perception by rousing the imagination in a way that forged a new unity of self and world.

Ashton Arnoldy on modernity as real stage in human history

[T]the distinction we make today between inner realities (consciousness) and outer realities (the physical universe) is not final, nor is it an accurate basis for reconstructing… the pre-human past.

Ashton Arnoldy on modernity as real stage in human history

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

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

What the interiority of reflection reveals is that which is interior to everything that exists: their reality as God’s creation.

Ali Harfouch on Islamic theology and reflection in the modern age

The political is a lived medium through which we gain insight into the theological concepts that inform the political as one human hierarchy amongst others (economic, social, and so on).

Ali Harfouch on recovering the political through political theology.

Through Peter’s silence hope is granted access to his despairing heart. Through silence ‘La Pasión’ is granted access to the audience, transforming the hearts that listen.

Victoria Costa on Golijov’s musical presentation of Peter’s betrayal.

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