The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
How Beautiful Are Numbers?
How is mathematics a liberal art? How can being good at math translate into virtue?
An interview with Francis Su
Disenchantment Talk
Disenchantment talk… has the benefit of raising an alternative way of viewing reality to what has become deeply ingrained and habitual in us all.
Travis DeCook responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast
What Is Modernity? An Inclusive Perspective
Humility is key to understanding modernity.
Rokhaya Dieng responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast
Teaching Modernity
The best way to show students how the term “modernity” is wielded in this way is to highlight the variety of lifestyles that exist parallel to each other in the same era…
Gina Elia responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast
Are Mountains Arbitrary?
Is there anything inherent in mountains that make our relationship to them genuine markers of change in human history?
Jake Grefenstette responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast
Petrarch, Nina Williams, and Mountain Modernity
Petrarch is not modern but classical, for he sees himself as being in continuity with a tradition, as gleaning in the fields after the reapers of the past.
Michael Krom responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast
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
Climbing the Mountains of Modernity
Episode 2.1 of the Genealogies of Modernity podcast is live!
Announcing the Genealogies of Modernity Podcast
What does it mean to be modern? And what is modernity anyway? Find out on the Genealogies of Modernity podcast.
Teaching Happiness
How successful are the liberal arts in teaching students how to be happy?
An interview with Tal Ben-Shahar
MacIntyre and Barfield on Remedies to the Catastrophe
Barfield’s diagnosis of a deeper alienation from language induces a correspondingly more dramatic remedy.
Jeffrey Hipolito puts two great theorists of human history into conversation
Will There Be Computers in Heaven?
What does Silicon Valley have to do with Jerusalem?
An interview with Derek Shuurman
Ghoulish Genealogies
The genealogical description insists on erasing hundreds of years of Christian life. The writer awkwardly alludes to Christianity but cannot imagine that it has any real importance except as a machine for appropriating pagan practices.
Terence Sweeney critiques pop-genealogies of Halloween
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
From Subjectivity to Recognition: Genderealogy and Paradigm Shift
The story of rupture is often told by innovative women.
Christine Helmer and Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft on “genderealogy”