I. HELL No quibbling helps here: the idea of eternal damnation, which had taken ever clearer shape in the Judaism …
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In Memoriam: Benedict XVI (1927–2022)
His room in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican is now empty, though its arrangement still suggests him. The …
The Womb and the Word
There is a curious note about the poet W. H. Auden (1907–1973) left by his brother John. For all that …
St. Nicholas and the Advent of Children’s Literature
In the days leading up to St. Nicholas’s feast day, my eight-year-old son—as coyly as an eight-year-old can—reminded his parents …
The Oddity of God, Part II: A Concluding Reflection on Alasdair MacIntyre’s Recent Comments
This is Part 2 of my reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre’s recent comments on God that began here. MacIntyre rightly noted that divine omniscience …
Heaven and the Transcendental Meaning of Death
Something always happens—an image, a moment, a terror, present one second, escaped the next—and we find ourselves thrust upon the …
Night, Hope, and Sleep: An Advent Reflection
Sometimes it takes the poet to remind us that metaphors and similitudes employed in the scriptures and in the Christian …
The Oddity of God: A Preliminary Reflection on Alasdair MacIntyre’s Recent Comments
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. he was in …
How God Survives the Death of God
If there could be said to be a general diagnostic problem within the reception of the death of God, it …
What Is It Like to Be a Soccer Ball?
Soccer is a game of movement, shape, and form which is neither objective in any naturalistic sense that could be …