The Monster and the Monstrance: A Sacramental Worldview Beyond Mere Aesthetics
Jennifer Newsome Martin on commodity fetishism.
Jennifer Newsome Martin
Jennifer Newsome Martin is an associate professor in the Department of Theology and the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the incoming director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture.
Articles
The Sacrament of the Possible, Or, Why I Became a Catholic
Jennifer Newsome Martin on conversion.
Desiring Beauty: The St. Margaret of Scotland Annual Lecture
Jennifer Newsome Martin on walking.
Julia Kristeva, Teresa of Ávila, and the Specter of Christianity
Jennifer Martin on psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva's abiding fascination with Catholicism.
Stewards Not Ravagers
If we consider the etymological roots of the word “ecology,” we can see in its Greek root the word oikos (meaning “household”). The word “ecology” itself thus already indicates to us a deep sense of ra...The Healing Power of Beauty
This is an essay about vision and blindness, about seeing and the failure to see, about wholes and fragments, sickness and healing, light and darkness, about nativity and the rebirth to eternal youth, about a mode of beauty that does not...