A Medieval Quasi-Defense of the New Moralism
Chase Padusniak, Princeton English PhD candidate, shows moralism's importance to the medievals and how it might be reasonably applied today.
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Both Sides of the Culture War Are Partially Wrong About Islam
Daniel Philpott, Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, aims for an accurate picture of religious freedom in the Muslim world.
Clearer Catholic Thinking About Islam
Gabriel Said Reynolds, ND Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology, takes a look at Islam from a Catholic perspective ahead of Ramadan.
What Does Belief in the Resurrection Look Like?
David Fagerberg, professor of liturgical studies in the ND theology department, gives you a peek at what belief in the resurrection means.
Good Friday's Silence Speaks
Timothy O’Malley, Director of the ND Center for Liturgy, attentively listens to the silence of Good Friday.
Can Christianity Stop at Good Friday?
Christopher Iacovetti, graduate student in the University of Chicago Divinity School, evaluates Simone Weil's battle against compensatory theologies.
The Notre-Dame Cathedral Fire Isn't a Sign
Timothy O’Malley, ND Center for Liturgy Director, reads the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral fire theologically, rather than purely culturally.
Remedies for American Catholic Polarization
Robert G. Christian III, Editor of Millennial Journal, proposes remedies for the recent exponential growth in Catholic polarization.
Reading the Writing in the Dirt
Roberto De La Noval, ND PhD candidate in Theology, reads Jesus's writing in the sand back into the Old Testament.
The Gospels Manifest a Poetic Christ
Columcille Dever and Matthew Vale, ND PhD candidates in Systematic Theology, read the poetic bedrock of Fr. Venard's reading of the Gospels and Aquinas.
God Doesn't Break Bad in the Old Testament
Gary A. Anderson, ND Hesburgh Professor of Theology, puts disturbing Divine behavior in proper biblical perspective.
Gabriel Marcel and the Discovery of Fatherhood
Sr. Prudence Allen, RSM, member of the International Theological Commission, on the relevance of Gabriel Marcel's philosophy of fatherhood and the family.
Integralism and the Logic of the Cross
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., a monk of Stift Heiligenkreuz, addresses criticisms of the integralist position's logic.
Political Theology's Haunting of Contemporary Politics
Michael Altenburger, ND Systematic Theology PhD, shows how Peterson's work points out the limitations and strengths of Schmitt's political theology.
The Integralist Mirroring of Liberal Ideals
Timothy Troutner, ND PhD Candidate in systematic theology, finds liberalism's logic at the heart of the integralist project.
Can Schmitt's Political Theology Be Redeemed?
Michael Altenburger, Notre Dame Ph.D. in Systematic Theology, evaluates what can be saved from Carl Schmitt's political theology.
Celebrating 200 Years of Catholic Theology’s Oldest Journal
Grant Kaplan, SLU Steber Chair in Theology, celebrates the historical triumphs and the unique experience of reading Theologische Quartalschrift.
Justice and Rights in Europe Today
John Milbank, President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, wraps up his series by laying out the history of natural law
Maritain's Postwar Compromise of Natural Law
John Milbank, President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, criticizes Jacques Maritain's contribution to the postwar human rights revolution.
The Faith of Ancient Philosophy's Fathers
John C. Cavadini, Director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life, contemplates the element of faith in pre-Christian philosophy.
Burke's Romantic Restoration of Natural Law
John Milbank, President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, continues his CLJ series by considering Edmund Burke's ressourcement of natural law.
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 History of Natural Right
John Milbank, President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, continues his series by surveying the history of natural right.
The Darkness of Hope
Kristen Drahos, Fellow in the Western Heritage Program at Carthage College, considers how Thérèse of Lisieux challenges Walter Benjamin's wreck of history.
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.
The History of Natural Law
John Milbank, President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, continues his series by laying out the history of natural law.
A Revisionist Account of Natural Law and Natural Right
John Milbank, President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, gives an alternative account of the history and meaning of natural law and natural rights.
Lonergan's Communal Novum Organon
Rev. John Cush, Academic Dean of the Pontifical North American College in Rome, lays out Lonergan's theological achievement and what lies ahead of it.
Derrida, Politics, and the Little Way
Michael Altenburger, Notre Dame PhD in Systematic Theology, deconstructs Jacques Derrida's (non-)commitments to theology.
Spirits, Souls... Tunics?
David Bentley Hart, theologian and New Testament translator, goes from biblical tunics to worlds not yet discovered.
