Faith, Reason and the Eucharist

Faith, Reason and the Eucharist

Between doubts about “natural theology” and post-modern polemics against “modernity”, an older view that the existence of God can be known “by the natural light of reason” gets little hearing. […]

Against Nostalgia: Catholicism, History and Modernity

Against Nostalgia: Catholicism, History and Modernity

Deeply ingrained assumptions about the nature of historical change prevent an adequate comprehension of the transformations that have created the contemporary Western world over the past half-millennium. Departures from traditional […]

Symposium on Gary Anderson’s Sin: A History

In Sin: A History, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin lay at the heart of the biblical tradition. Spanning two thousand years, the book demonstrates how sin, once conceived […]

The Apocalypse in Origen and the Origenian Tradition

This lecture will investigate the interpretation of the Book of Revelation, or Apocalypse, in Origen and the Origenian tradition. Why does Origen accept this book, whereas many Origenian exegetes do not? What role does Millenarianism […]

Symposium on Caritas in Veritate

Published upon the heels of the global financial collapse of 2008, Benedict XVI’s social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, has been received with great controversy in America. Conservatives have criticized the encyclical’s indictment of […]