Where are the women in genealogy?

Caroline Wills responds to a recent Modern Theology article by Christine Helmer and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft

In the coming months, Genealogies of Modernity will be publishing a series of response pieces to articles from Theological Genealogies of Modernity, a special issue of Modern Theology edited by Darren Sarisky, Pui-Him Ip, and Austin Stevenson.

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

The Hedgehog Review interviews Ryan McDermott

[Poetry is] the closest thing—alongside music and dance and visual art—to a transhistorical technology of human expression and contemplation.

Anthony Shoplik interviews Philip Metres

Can't poetry just be beautiful and sufficient in itself, a refuge?

Anthony Shoplik interviews Philip Metres

How do we adopt tradition without being duped by misinterpretation?

An interview with Anne Carpenter

Carlos Bulosan’s humanist vision of freedom was articulated through his deep attention to the material conditions of Filipino life.

Colton Bernasol’s retrieval of a giant of American letters

[Bulosan] locates the “who” of America on its margins, expanding the nation’s definition of itself to include those who have been excised from its democratic institutions and practices.

Colton Bernasol’s retrieval of a giant of American letters

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

An interview with Anne Carpenter

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in September on our modern life.

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

It is a chief responsibility of the humanities to remember and interpret the past so that we can understand the present.

Ryan McDermott on proposed faculty cuts at ACU [update]

[T]he decline of sickness funds and early community-rated plans transformed a system rooted in voluntarism and mutual aid…

Grant Martsolf on the transition from industrial sickness funds to insurance plans in the United States

How does the past bear on the present? Has “modernity” always been around?

Ryan McDermott’s interview with the Spiritually Incorrect Podcast

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

It is a chief responsibility of the humanities to remember and interpret the past so that we can understand the present.

Ryan McDermott on proposed faculty cuts at ACU

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