Saint Maximus the Confessor offers a curious reassurance to the reader of his Ambigua to John. In his description, deification, …
Hungry for God: Praying for Daily Bread with St. Teresa of Ávila
By Esteban Crawford, Trinity School for Ministry The following essay won second place, as well as Best Liturgical Essay, in …
The Persistence of Pagan Myth in Christian Thinking
At this point, it is difficult to imagine a more tedious and oversaturated topic than the significance of Jordan Peterson. …
Baptism and the Heated Debates Over Augustine’s Development
The heated debates over Augustine’s development have occupied the most eminent of interpreters, on both sides of the question. I …
One Holy Ghost, the Comforter, Who Spake in the Prophets
The following essay won first place, as well as Best Historical Essay, in the Summer 2022 Clarifying Catholicism Theology Essay …
The Second Council of Lyon II
“Finally, recognizing the great turmoil that came from three years of debating the successor to his predecessor, the council decreed …
Sexual Abuse and the Shadows of the Fall
Certain segments of social media were dominated this spring by the daily courtroom duels between the teams of Amber Heard …
Signs of the Times as a New Locus Theologicus?
Among the “great metaphors”[1] that characterize the texts of the Second Vatican Council, the « signs of the times » from the Pastoral …
Henri de Lubac’s Sacramental Vision
Is the sacred untouchable? Yes, certainly, and yet we touch it.[1] Introduction Denys Turner offers a critique of Henri de …
Music as a Key to Time in Proust and Augustine
Always seeking after fulfillment, yet unable to truly reach outside of himself in any creative act, Swann in Marcel Proust’s …