Modernity's Feasting on Fluid Bodies and Empty Selves
Angela Franks on vampires, zombies, and identities.
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The Blood of Dionysus or the Vineyard of the Lord?
Angela Franks on the will to power versus the logic of the cross.
97 Theses on Hegel and His Catholic Readers
Cyril O'Regan on Hegel's 250th birthday and spiders.
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.
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.
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.
A Defense of Devil Costumes
Justin Shaun Coyle, Boston College PhD candidate in systematics, looks to ancient traditions of mocking the devil to defend devilish Halloween costumes.
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.
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.
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.