Cosmos The In Lost
You’ll find my latest EP piece in the Rabelaisian Catholicism series here. It might look slightly familiar, but different, to some of you. Read more
You’ll find my latest EP piece in the Rabelaisian Catholicism series here. It might look slightly familiar, but different, to some of you. Read more
Artur Rosman has given us a masterful account of the difference between Catholic and Protestant imaginations in the way that they deal with sex scandals. As I begin this post, I give my obligatory thanks to him for letting me play a dialectical role to his “backward Catholic” analogical orientation. Of course, dialectics produce syntheses, so if you end up thinking that Artur and I are saying the same thing about Protestant and Catholic sex scandals, it means that the... Read more
The protests in the Ukraine have taken a somewhat unexpected violent turn recently after the promise of peace, reports Timothy, author of Bloodlands. What do these recent events tell us about the Church and about what God thinks about flags? Tim Kelleher’s recent analysis of these events, “Crucifixion in Kiev,” makes three very important points about their theological significance. He looks at the events with Western eyes: “To Western eyes, these blokes, of long beard and foreign vestiture, might seem eccentric.Who are... Read more
How does the dynamism of analogy reflect itself in the ways we go about imaging God? If you haven’t read the introduction to Przywara’s Analogia Entis, then pick it up again. John Betz, author of After Enlightenment, has littered his exhaustive introduction to Analogia Entis with many nuggets from Przywara’s other writings, sermons, and letters. Here’s a sampling from the introduction of a 1926 Przywara lecture: “Thus all our wandering in Him and to Him is itself a tension between... Read more
Here on Ethika Politika I break some technically unbroken stories that have been floating around the net and in the back alleys of the regular media. Read more
Valentine’s Day is around the corner and it’s difficult to avoid talking about something romantic. This shouldn’t be very difficult because Romanticism is the topic of some highly touted books published within the past year. I’m thinking of Louis Dupre’s The Quest of the Absolute: Birth and Decline of European Romanticism and D.C. Schindler’s The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns. Cyril O’Regan’s upcoming book Anatomy of Misremembering: Von Balthasar’s Response to Philosophical Modernity. Volume 1:... Read more
Father Steve Grunow recently wrote a reflection on the history behind the the healing waters of Lourdes over at the Word on Fire blog. I always look for these kinds of reminders, because February 11th is my birthday. However, the following words did not entirely square with my own experience at Lourdes: “The waters of Lourdes take us back to a memory that endures in each of us of a paradise lost long ago and that stream that gave life... Read more
It’s clear that it’s always raining in Tübingen. NEWSFLASH: Hans Küng abuses his teaching authority once again by calling for Catholic Church reforms modeled on current events in the following HuffPo excerpt from Can We Save the Catholic Church? It reads like a Borowitz Report news sendup: “The Arab Spring has shaken a whole series of autocratic regimes. With the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Pope Francis, might something like this be possible in the Catholic Church... Read more
Have you heard anything about the abrupt break between Bob Jones University and sex abuse investigators they hired from GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment)? Or, have you heard anything about the non-investigation of Bill Gothard—an evangelical home-schooling guru with allegations hanging over his head that would make Woody Allen blush? Probably not. After a single RNS report a week ago about the Bob Jones debacle the story finally “broke” yesterday in a handful major media outlets. On the other hand, Gothard continues to fly... Read more
If you want to know please take a look at my latest post on Ethika Politika right here. In other news, Patrick Deneen mentioned Cosmos in his post “A Catholic Showdown Worth Watching” over at The American Conservative. Read more
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