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.
2018
A Theological Critique of Economic Modernity's Myths
Rick Coronado, Chair of Economics at Benedictine College, presents a theology of economics that treats the dismal science as if it really matters.
When Worlds Collide: Scripture and Cosmology in Historical Perspective
Kyle Greenwood, Associated Faculty at Denver Seminary, navigates the three major shifts in cosmology that required major shifts in theological interpretation.
Attempts to Explain Cosmogony Scientifically
Stephen Barr, physicist and president of the Society of Catholic Scientists, explains what is at stake in scientific theories of the beginning.
A Guide for Effectively Teaching Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity in Theology 101
Kevin Miller, FUS Assistant Professor of Moral Theology, writes about the challenging but rewarding experience of teaching Ratzinger's Introduction.
Ah, to Live in a Cosmos Again!
John Brungardt looks at how pictures of the cosmos are formed and what it takes to make one today.
An Academic Program for Exploring the Divine Healing Touch in Medicine
Kristin Collier, University of Michigan Medical School Assistant Professor, discusses the Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion she founded and runs.
Guidelines for Any Appropriate Response to the Catholic Abuse Crisis
John Cavadini, Director of the ND McGrath Institute for Church Life, proposes remedies to the abuse scandal from within the heart of Catholic theology.
Georges Bataille: The Dark Soul of the Night
Andrew Kuiper, writer and publisher, tests what Catholics can learn from the religious impulses in George Bataille's atheistic Theory of Religion.
Frankenstein's Scientific Chaoskampf
Ben Parks, SLU PhD student in Theology and Bioethics, compares the creation of Dr. Frankenstein's monster to ancient myths of creating order from chaos.
How Can Modern Science Purify Christianity from Error and Superstition?
Jordan Haddad, CUA PhD student in Systematic Theology, expands on JP2's claim that science and religion can flourish by drawing each other into a wider world.
If the Mother of the Maccabees Knew of Atoms
Stacy Trasancos, bestselling author on the topic of science and religion, looks at how contemporary scientific knowledge sheds light on the martyrdom of the Maccabees.
Reality Is Bigger Than the Human Mind
Christopher Baglow, Director of the McGrath Science & Religion Initiative, recalls early modern science's mistakes and explores how theology can move beyond them.
St. John of the Cross: The Depth, Height, and Edges of Silence
Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame Huisking Chair in Theology, speaks about the continued appeal of Saint John of the Cross' theology of silence.
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.
The Method for Avoiding Cheap Success in Apologetics
Fr. Harrison Ayre, priest of the Diocese of Victoria, follows Maurice Blondel as a guide to avoiding cheap success in Christian apologetics.
An Appraisal of the Neuroscientific Revolution's Promise of New Theological Horizons
Sofia Carozza, ND senior majoring in Neuroscience & Theology, examines claims about neuroscience constituting a second scientific revolution open to theology.
What Did Pope Francis Mean to Say with His Strange Abuse Crisis Letter?
Jonathan Heaps, theologian and recent convert to Catholicism, struggles to understand what Pope Francis is trying to say in his letter on the abuse crisis.
What Does It Really Mean to Speak of the Right to Life?
Charles Camosy, Fordham Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, discusses the presuppositions of the pro-life movement in light of Church teaching and history.
Vaporwave and Simone Weil's Void
Scott Beauchamp, writer and author of the forthcoming "Did You Kill Anyone?," introduces the vaporwave aesthetic as a compliment to Simone Weil's mysticism.
The Search for the Holy Grail of a Conservative Socialism
Elias Crim, founder of Solidarity Hall and host of the Dorothy's Place podcast, goes on a virtuous search with John Milbank and Adrian Pabst.
A Painful Look Back at Saint Augustine and the Donatist Schism
Ty Monroe, Visiting Professor at Assumption College, looks back at the Donatist Controversy to see schisms as rotting infections of a prior wound.
The Point Where the Ugliness of Our Lives Is Transfigured
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair in Theology, considers the power of the Cross’ beauty to redeem the ugliness of sin in this most personal reflection.
Whence Comes the Arresting Sorrow of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa?
John Sikorski, PhD candidate in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame, ponders the Black Madonna's mysterious history, meaning, and significance.
A Case for Change: Reform and Church Teaching
Brandon R. Peterson, University of Utah Department of Philosophy Lecturer, takes a wide historical and doctrinal look at Benedict XVI's "hermeneutic of reform."
Why Does Beauty Arouse Joy Even Among Suffering?
Junius Johnson, Honors College at Baylor University Assistant Professor, explores how our subjective experience of beauty is grounded in God's beauty.
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.
Augustine of Hippo: The Patron Saint of Suspicion
John C. Cavadini on St. Augustine as the humble master of the masters of suspicion.
Looking for the New Atheist Virgil
John Knox, Liberty University Associate Professor of Sociology, reviews Jerry Coyne's Faith vs. Fact and finds it to be at times an almost reliable guide.
Technology and the Mystical After Auschwitz
Balázs Mezei, Philosophy Professor at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, analyzes the troubled fate of technology and spirituality in the wake of 20th century barbarisms.
