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integral part of the millennial flow of Western thought and cannot simply be consigned to the dustbin of misguided and superseded systems of philosophy.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

Can Neo-Scholasticism Make a Comeback?

ADAPTING "THE APOLOGETICS OF YESTERDAY" TO TODAY

James Iovino

A Revival Cut Short

THE RISE & FALL OF THE THOMISTIC RENEWAL — PART II

D.Q. McInerny

The Revivification of Sound Christian Philosophy

THE RISE & FALL OF THE THOMISTIC RENEWAL — PART I

D.Q. McInerny

On Science sans Context

A NEW RELIGION, A NEW PRIESTHOOD

D.Q. McInerny

Why Study Philosophy?

WHAT IS THOMISM & WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Thomas Storck

Knowing About God, Knowing God

VATICAN I'S ASSIST TO INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

Glenn B. Siniscalchi

The Cloud of Witnesses Speaks

ACTION, CONTEMPLATION, MARTYDOM

James G. Hanink

Truth: A Destroyer of Community?

ANCHORLESS ON THE SEA OF CULTURE

Heather M. Erb

Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body

A PRIMER

Brian Thomas Becket Mullady

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.