The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
Why Does Beauty Wound?
[M]oments of beauty, however brief, impact our hearts, minds, and souls in a profound way. What exactly is occurring in these moments?
Beatrice Institute interviews John-Paul Heil
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
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
On Dentistry: a Mouthful of Memento Mori
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
Three Critiques of Secularism
Is it possible to critique secularism in a thoroughly secular age?
Ali Harfouch on alienation and the sublime
Arnold Lunn and the Religiosity of “Modern” Mountain Athletes
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
Ekstasis and the Chicken Truck
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
Will There Be Computers in Heaven?
What does Silicon Valley have to do with Jerusalem?
An interview with Derek Shuurman
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
Can AI Reignite Our Faith?
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
Is Tradition Compatible with Critique?
How do we adopt tradition without being duped by misinterpretation?
An interview with Anne Carpenter
How Should We Love Tradition?
How would you rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral? Are we justified in putting humans at the center of history?
An interview with Anne Carpenter
Modernity and the Evolution of Consciousness: Part II
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
Modernity and the Evolution of Consciousness: Part I
[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
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
Seeing the World, Again
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
What is the Task of Political Theology?
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.
Peter in the Passion: Part II
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.