Jean-Louis Chrétien's Wounded Word
Timothy Troutner, ND PhD Candidate in systematic theology, celebrates the life and work of Jean-Louis Chrétien.
Looking Awry at Resurrection Bodies
D.B. Hart, theologian and New Testament translator, responds to critiques of his essay on resurrection bodies.
The Founding Violence That Never Ends
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, contemplates American history through Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
Golden Beauty Lies Sometimes
Anne Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Theology at St. Mary’s College, critiques the Baroque Catholic imagination through the history of race.
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Long After the Prodigal Son's Return
Leonard DeLorenzo, faculty member at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, engages Abigail Favale's memoir to reimagine the period long after the Prodigal's return.
Jesus Reveals God in Hiddenness
Ben Wilson, Director of the Summer Service Learning Program at ND’s Center for Social Concerns, writes about participating in the hidden life of Jesus.
The Incarnation Doesn't End with the Resurrection
James Ware, University of Evansville Professor of Religion, takes up David Bentley Hart's thesis about matter, spirit, and the resurrection.
Deciphering the CDF on Hysterectomy and Sterilization
Taylor Patrick O'Neill, Mt Mercy University Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, compares and contrast the recent statement on hysterectomies with past statements.
The Primacy of Love in Catholic Sexual Teaching
Ulrich Lehner, ND William K. Warren Professor of Theology, recapitulates August Adam's theological achievement.
The Spiritual Was More Substantial Than the Material for the Ancients
D.B. Hart, theologian and New Testament translator, explores the NT's strange intellectual world by defining what spirit, soul, and flesh meant to its writers.
How to Echo the Faith Across Generations
Brian Pedraza, Assistant Professor of Theology at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University, writes to his son about passing the faith.
Economics After Luther
John Milbank, President of the Centre of Theology & Philosophy, reconsiders the role Luther played in the emergence of unfettered capitalism.
Lourdes from the Perspective of a Wheelchair
Catherine Sims Kuiper, Postdoctoral Fellow at Notre Dame’s Kaneb Center, relates what it's like to visit Lourdes as a deeply ill pilgrim.
Are Real-Life Pro-Lifers Only Pro-Birth?
Claire Fyrqvist, writer and pro-life activist, questions the conventional wisdom that pro-lifers only care about the baby in the womb.
Cormac McCarthy's Polysemous Monster
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, faces the Judge from Blood Meridian.
What Makes Charles Taylor so Attractive?
Anthony Sciglitano, Seton Hall Associate Professor in Religion, gives four reasons why philosopher Charles Taylor's work is important to ecclesial life.
A Priest for James Carroll
Joshua J. Whitfield, theologian and Pastoral Administrator, describes what the abuse scandal looks like from the inside.
The Pro-Life Movement at a Crossroads
Charles Camosy, Fordham University Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, urges prudence as the present political situation places the pro-life movement at a major crossroads.
The Severity of Universal Salvation
Taylor Ross, Duke PhD student of Early Christianity, scrutinizes the severe logic of universal salvation as taught by some of the Fathers.
Deadwood's Violent Theological Realism
Jonathan Heaps, Marquette PhD candidate in theology, on the scandal of God's grace in Deadwood.
The Unsettling Qualities of Christ's Ascension
Andrew Kuiper, writer and editor, returns Christ's Ascension to its rightful place at the center of theology and proclamation.
Values or Virtues?
Rémi Brague, Emeritus Professor of medieval and Arabic philosophy at the University of Paris I, illustrates the crucial difference between virtue and value.
Love Before Work
Colleen Halpin, Church Life Intern at the MICL, considers Maximilian Kolbe's witness of love against the message of Auschwitz's gates.
War Is Boring
Scott Beauchamp, author of the forthcoming Did You Kill Anyone?, on the boredom of war and modern life.
Two Texan Anti-Abortion Approaches (One of Them Is Pro-Life)
Charles Camosy, Fordham University Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, discerns the important difference between two pro-life approaches in one state.
Faith Formation with Flannery O'Connor
Stephanie Reuter, ND MTS student of systematic theology, presents Flannery O'Connor as a catechist.
The Cry of the Earth in Pan-Amazonia
Lucas Briola, Assistant Theology Professor at Saint Vincent College, unearths striking CST developments in a pre-synod document on the Pan-Amazonian region.
The Spiritual Desert Isn't Optional
Joshua J. Whitfield, theologian and Pastoral Administrator, looks for a preaching that can resound in our desertified spiritual landscape.
Aquinas in Ecstasy
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, encapsulates a recent ecstatic ressourcement of Aquinas's theology.
A Medieval Quasi-Defense of the New Moralism
Chase Padusniak, Princeton English PhD candidate, shows moralism's importance to the medievals and how it might be reasonably applied today.
Laïcité and the High Stakes of Restoring Notre-Dame
Guillaume de Thieulloy, publisher and political scientist, explains why the history of French laïcité suggests much is at stake in the Cathedral's restoration.
The Barbarian and the Virgin Mary
Dwight Lindley, Associate Professor of English at Hillsdale College, looks to the Virgin Mary for a non-abstract inclusivity.
Both Sides of the Culture War Are Partially Wrong About Islam
Daniel Philpott, Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, aims for an accurate picture of religious freedom in the Muslim world.
Pushing Back Against Marilynne Robinson's Theology
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at John Brown University, pushes back against Robinson's Emersonian theology with the help of Flannery O'Connor.
The Message Is the Messenger
Anne-Sophie Constant, Jean Vanier's biographer, reflects on Vanier's witness to God choosing the weak of the world to shame the strong.
Nietzsche Between Christianity and Greek Myth
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, envisions how Nietzsche would view two Greek myths differently than Simone Weil.
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Clearer Catholic Thinking About Islam
Gabriel Said Reynolds, ND Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology, takes a look at Islam from a Catholic perspective ahead of Ramadan.
God, Country, and Joan of Arc
Ann Astell, ND Professor of Theology, explains Joan of Arc's significance in terms of God, Country, and Notre Dame.
