The Pastoral Mystery of the Church
Terence Sweeney on shepherding.
Terence Sweeney
Terence Sweeney is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Honors Program and Humanities Department at Villanova University. His work centers on Augustine but extends to medieval thought, philosophical theology, and political theory.
Articles
Bartolomé de las Casas on the Naturalness of Evangelization
Terence Sweeney on the natural desire for God.
We Are Family: On Fraternal Liberalism
Terence Sweeney on brothers and sisters.
Claude McKay's Catholic Poetics and Politics
Terence Sweeney on the thirst for justice.
Running Out of Options
Terence Sweeney on what comes after the Benedict Option craze goes integralist.
Ingredients for Developing a Catholic Anti-Racist Curriculum
Terence Sweeney on retrieving sources and finding new ones.
What Are Kingdoms but Great Bands of Robbers?
Terence Sweeney on empires and theft in Augustine and Bartolomé de Las Casas.
Peter the Spy: Imitatio Christi Versus Imitatio Mundi
Terence Sweeney on St. Peter's courage and denials.
Where Does the Church's Crisis of Authority Dwell?
Terence Sweeney enlists Hannah Arendt to answer this question.
Social Reform Isn't the Goal
Terence Sweeney reckons with Alan Jacobs's The Year of the Lord.
How Chaucer (Probably) Can't Save Your Life
Terence Sweeney, Villanova doctoral candidate in Philosophy, goes on pilgrimage with Geoffrey Chaucer.
Atheism's Lessons for Theists
Terence Sweeney, Villanova doctoral candidate in Philosophy, shows how atheism can resposition belief.