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

Glorifying the apparently obvious becomes a way of warding off the transcendent, since distraction—made easier by friction-free, disembodied typographic banality—becomes the primary mode of attention.

Duncan Reyburn on mimetically uniform fonts

Clogged porosity may be more prevalent in modernity. But there are “passageways between the immanent and transcendent realms,” places where grandeur flames through the frame.

Steven Knepper reviews Ryan Duns’s Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest for God

Because Japan had grafted what was available in Anglo-European modernity onto its socio-political and cultural milieu (i.e., fūdo 風土), Japan ended up with a strange mixture of ‘super-modernity’ and ‘pre-modernity’ as their peculiar form of ‘modernity.’

Takeshi Morisato on the thought of Maruyama Masao

To say, as Gabriel Marcel did, “thou, thou shall not die,” is not a desperate plea nor a psychological coping mechanism, but a way of remaining faithful to the implications of what one has experienced in the beloved.

Geoffrey Karabin on intersubjectivity and immortality

To adopt the transhumanist vision is to think of incarnate reality as something to be saved from. To adopt Gabriel Marcel’s vision is to recognize that our salvation, or at least hope for our salvation, is already present before us.

Geoffrey Karabin presents two visions for a post-modern heaven

Desmond attempts to awaken us to the ‘blooming, darting, singing world’ that exists beyond our construction.

Terence Sweeney reviews William Desmond’s recent work The Voiding of Being

Terence Sweeney examines historical thinking in the Christian tradition.