The Later Heidegger's Apocalyptic Marcionism
Cyril O'Regan on the chthonic.
Cyril O'Regan
Cyril O'Regan is the Catherine F. Huisking Chair in Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His latest book is the first installment of a multi-volume intellectual history of Gnosticism in modernity, The Anatomy of Misremembering, Volume 1: Hegel.
Articles
Heidegger, Apocalyptic Philosophy, and the Specter of Marcionism
Cyril O'Regan on the Gnostic return in the 20th century.
In Memoriam: Benedict XVI (1927–2022)
Cyril O'Regan on the legacy of Joseph Ratzinger.
Newman and the Affliction of Interiority
Cyril O'Regan on Newman and Augustine.
Heidegger's Illusory Rapprochement with the Christian Theological Tradition
Cyril O'Regan on the apocalyptic.
The God of Mercy in a Time of Plague
Cyril O'Regan on Julian of Norwich.
Thomas More: Saint in a Time of Political and Cultural Crisis
Cyril O'Regan on a saint for a time to choose.
Benedict XVI: Eschatology as Mirror and Lamp
Cyril O'Regan on Joseph Ratzinger and the Last Things.
Historiographic Sophistications: Marcionism as a Genealogical Category
Cyril O'Regan on modern attempts to displace historical Christianity.
Changing the Subject to Christ
Cyril O'Regan on von Balthasar and what beauty will save the world.
97 Theses on Hegel and His Catholic Readers
Cyril O'Regan on Hegel's 250th birthday and spiders.
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Beauty of Forgetting
Cyril O'Regan on productive forgetfulness within the Tradition.
John Banville and the Redemption of Art
Cyril O'Regan on the novel and whether art saves.
Christ in the ICU
Cyril O'Regan on undergoing serious surgery, dying, and healthcare workers.
Historiographic Sophistications: The Eclipse of Medieval Women Mystics
Cyril O'Regan on how theory eclipses the witness of medieval women mystics.
Historiographic Sophistications: Did Gnosticism Exist?
Cyril O'Regan on the contested existence of Gnosticism.
Newman: Apostle of Fear and Trembling to Liberal Christianity
Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame Huisking Chair in Theology, retrieves St. John Henry Newman's recovery of the fear of God.
Newman and the Dis-Asters of Modernity
Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame Huisking Chair in Theology, explains John Henry Newman's contribution to the present age.
Cormac McCarthy and the Founding Violence That Never Ends
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, contemplates American history through Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
Cormac McCarthy's Polysemous Monster
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, faces the Judge from Blood Meridian.
Aquinas in Ecstasy
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, encapsulates a recent ecstatic ressourcement of Aquinas's theology.
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.
Renewing Nouvelle Théologie
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, makes evident why nouvelle théologie answers the questions raised by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age.
The Anti-Catholicism of Heidegger's Black Notebooks
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair of Theology, argues that the Black Notebooks reveal more about Heidegger's anti-Catholicism than about his anti-Semitism.
Dostoevsky on the Demonic Decimation of a Shareable World
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair in Theology, argues that the solipsistic characters in Dostoevsky's major novels reveal modernity's demonic loneliness.
Dostoevsky's Literary Burden of Representing Saints
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair in Theology, examines The Brothers Karamazov to see how Dostoesvky overcame the problem of depicting goodness in literature.
4 Reasons Why Christians Should Read Dante's Paradiso
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair in Theology, explains, just in time for All Saints', why the Paradiso is the pinnacle of Dante's achievement.
Kant and de Sade: The Modern Recalibration of the Monstrous and the Demonic
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair in Theology, focuses upon a shift in the understanding of evil that took place around 1794 in Kant's and de Sade's writings.
The Stare of Medusa and the Return Gaze of Christ
Cyril O'Regan, ND Huisking Chair in Theology, starts with a look at a Nietzschean bon mot and ends up contemplating the vision of God with Nicholas of Cusa.
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.