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The Right Ordering of Love in the Political Sphere

JOHN GRONDELSKI REPLIES

John M. Grondelski

When we move from the spiritual good of love to its material, concrete incarnation, we move into the realm of material goods that diminish by division.

Defending Dives, Defunding Lazarus

THE 'ORDO AMORIS': TWO PERSPECTIVES

John C. Médaille

J.D. Vance invoked St. Augustine and the 'ordo amoris' while discussing immigration issues, drawing great commentary from all sides and even a papal rebuke.

Dominicans vs. Jesuits: A High-Stakes Debate

Thomas Storck

Are the dogmatic and moral teachings of the Church subject to revision by an ongoing series of synods in which any Catholic potentially has a right to vote?

A Systematic Framework for Understanding the Human Person

Deborah Savage

'A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person' resituates the person in his proper context as a composite creature who is a profound union of body and soul.

Antidote for the New Normal

THE SLAYER OF THEOLOGICAL BEASTS

John A. Perricone

Catholics must again lean their heads upon the wisdom of St. Thomas, as he often leaned his head on the tabernacle as he wrote.

Aquinas for the Rest of Us

Jason M. Morgan

Man is part of the world and also separate from it, embedded in a spiritual hierarchy that stretches infinitely beyond what we can see, touch, and hear.

Total Personal Creation: The Restoration of Philosophical Sanity?

David D. Jividen

The tension between God’s will and human freedom is resolved in a manner that acknowledges the transcendence of God’s nature.

The Thomistic Critique of Theistic Evolution

John Lyon

Thomism is an integral part of the millennial flow of Western thought and cannot simply be consigned to the dustbin of misguided and superseded systems of philosophy.

The Qur’an as Allah’s Logos

THE ULTIMATE HERESY

Derya Little

Instead of completely erasing references to “the Word,” Muhammad attributed them to the Qur’an, thus making the book he received the true Logos of the Creator.

Minding the Gap

ON THE PRESENCE & ABSENCE OF THINGS

James V. Schall

Modern philosophy has had difficulty relating what goes on in the human mind to what is “out there” in reality. How to bridge this gap is the task phenomenology sets for itself.

Are Revelation & Modernity Compatible?

THE DANGER OF “DOUBLE TRUTH”

James V. Schall

The effort of the Church to come to terms with the modern world too often assumes that contemporary culture is neutral when, in fact, it is closed to the transcendent.

Do Historical Norms Alter Church Teachings? Should They?

ON "DOING" CATHOLIC THEOLOGY

James V. Schall

Revelation was not designed primarily to explain how to make this world perfect, but to reveal how men in any time or place are to reach eternal life.

Can Neo-Scholasticism Make a Comeback?

ADAPTING "THE APOLOGETICS OF YESTERDAY" TO TODAY

James Iovino

What is needed now is a rational apologetics that not only addresses the human person's intellect but his will too.

Permanent Irresolution & the Art of Making a Public Argument

GUEST COLUMN

Robert Barron

The principal means of teaching in the medieval university was not the classroom lecture but the quaestio disputata (disputed question).

A Revival Cut Short

THE RISE & FALL OF THE THOMISTIC RENEWAL — PART II

D.Q. McInerny

It is imperative that what Pope Leo began be begun anew — for the simple reason that there is a pressing need for the restoration of Christian philosophy.

The Revivification of Sound Christian Philosophy

THE RISE & FALL OF THE THOMISTIC RENEWAL — PART I

D.Q. McInerny

With astonishing suddenness Thomism ceased to be the governing and guiding philosophy in Catholic higher education. How to explain this?

On Science sans Context

A NEW RELIGION, A NEW PRIESTHOOD

D.Q. McInerny

Scientism is an attitude that fosters and promotes a seriously exaggerated — and hence distorted — estimation of the nature and the scope of science.

Why Study Philosophy?

WHAT IS THOMISM & WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Thomas Storck

It allows us to understand reality, to know the truth, and, moreover, to see that the truth is of the utmost importance not only for the life of the Church but for the world.

Knowing About God, Knowing God

VATICAN I'S ASSIST TO INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

Glenn B. Siniscalchi

The principles of fallibilist foundationalism are intrinsic to the nature of God and every human person, all of whom have been made in His image.

The Cloud of Witnesses Speaks

ACTION, CONTEMPLATION, MARTYDOM

James G. Hanink

If one who contemplates shares in God's life, contemplation overflows in the free gift of self. Thus, indeed, it shows that it is of God.

Truth: A Destroyer of Community?

ANCHORLESS ON THE SEA OF CULTURE

Heather M. Erb

The same God who instructs the heart also makes full use of intellectual concepts, syllogisms, and insights, including those found in philosophy and theology.

Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body

A PRIMER

Brian Thomas Becket Mullady

The grace of marriage allows the parties to become one flesh and calls forth from them the same love Christ has for His Church.

Dualism, the Human Body & the Self

INCOMPATIBLE BEDFELLOWS

E. Christian Brugger

The reunification of body and soul at the resurrection of the dead will make possible a human perfection impossible without it.

Waking Up the Seminaries

THE KEY TO CHURCH RENEWAL

Charles James

Being unsatisfied with mere "attendance at liturgy," the spiritually awakened seminarian will personally seek the Lord in the liturgy.

Dumb Ox?

Michael Berg

What characterizes Thomist thought? It is philosophy intrinsically consonant with common sense. For St. Thomas the real is just that, real.

Falling Into Subjectivism

MICHAEL NOVAK'S TRIBUTE TO BERNARD LONERGAN

Charles James

For theologians who long ago jettisoned the Thomistic philosophy of being, Lonergan offers a new grounding for theology.

Thomas Aquinas Contra Andy Rooney

SHOULD WE ASK GOD FOR "TEMPORAL THINGS"?

Brendan Kneale

The hallmark of Catholic theology is that it insists on the concrete and resists the ethereal. Our beliefs are beliefs about reality.

A Trialogue With C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther & Thomas Aquinas

IS THERE SUCH A THING AS 'MERE CHRISTIANITY'?

Peter Kreeft

Reassessing Aquinas

Mary Beth Ingham

Review of The Primacy of Love and The Priority of Prudence

A Protestant Consideration of Natural Law

NATURAL RIGHTS, LIBERAL DEMOCRACY & THE RIGHT TO LIFE

Glenn N. Schram

Alasdair MacIntyre

Philip E. Devine

Review of Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry

Vatican II & Scholasticism

IS NEO-THOMISM OBSOLETE?

Avery Dulles

Kant Was Wrong

Thomas W. Case

According to Kant, we do not look upon the world as it is, but upon an appearance of the world projected by the structures of the human mind.

Humility’s Sorry Fortunes in Society & Philosophy

ON THE VIRTUE OF HUMILITY

James G. Hanink

The Christian doctrine of humility strikes the secular mind as paradoxical in its insistence that the better a person is the more humble a person should be.

Against 20th-Century Prejudices

David J. Schlafer

The natural law tradition, viable for Thomas, does not strike most contemporary ethi­cal theorists as an acceptable framework for under­standing moral judgments.