Notes on Pope Pius IX and Science in Light of the Syllabus of Errors
Introduction Few in the Roman See have elicited such strong emotions and evaluations, both in his own era and in ours, regarding guidance of the Catholic church…
Notes on Stalinism as a Secular Religion
Introduction As with nearly any claim in scholarly discourse, the assertion that the communism espoused by Marx, Lenin, and Stalin constituted a secular religion is a controversial…
Notes on V. I. Lenin and the 1922 Moscow Trial of the Russian Orthodox Church
Introduction Like a shape-shifter, global communism and its intellectual ideals have shown a remarkable resiliency and an ability to adapt to various cultures. The fall of communism…
Notes on Early Marx, Religion, and Recent Scholarship on Marxism and Religion
Introduction St. Augustine’s City of God offers a vision of harmony that serves as a lasting contrast with the conflict model of reality espoused by the Dialectical…
Feuerbach and Comte: Religion and Human Nature
In his classic work A Secular Age, Charles Taylor argued that the shift away from religious and toward a secular worldview turns not sheerly on scientific, but…