Tolkien’s Erotic Lent
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Chase Padusniak
Chase Padusniak is a PhD candidate in Princeton University's Department of English, where he specializes in medieval literature. In addition to his academic pursuits, Chase spends time working on creative projects such as films, poetry, and cultivating negativity.
Articles
Quantity and the Politics of Prayer
Chase Padusniak on agony.
Suffering Holy Week
Chase Padusniak on exhaustion.
Jacques Lacan's Benedict Option
Chase Padusniak on living not by lies.
Jungianism and the Proliferation of Meaning-Seeking Esotericism
Chases Padusniak on Lacan and Peterson.
The Gobsmacking Wisdom of the Book of Judges
Chase Padusniak on the good God of the Old Testament.Cardinal Sarah's Warning to the West
Chase Padusniak on the overlooked elements of Robert Cardinal Sarah's thinking.
Think Medieval Lent Was Tough?
Chase Padusniak takes a realistic look at medieval Lenten and Carnival practices.
We're Not Mystics
Chase Padusniak, PhD candidate in Princeton's English Department, deepens Rahner’s line on mysticism.
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.
The Eastern Orthodox Schism Behind the War in Ukraine
Chase Padusniak, Princeton English Department PhD Candidate, explains why the largest schism since the Reformation is escaping serious notice in the West.
The Catechetical Political Theology of Joseph Ratzinger
Chase Padusniak, Princeton English Department PhD candidate, reads Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity as a unique political theology by exploring his sources.
Science Is Not as Important as We Believe
Chase Padusniak, Princeton University English Department PhD candidate, on the relative importance of speaking to science within the New Evangelization.
Embrace Negativity or Risk Never Being Happy
Chase Padusniak, Princeton English Department PhD candidate, takes Byung-Chul Han as guide through the paradoxes of (not) attaining true happiness.