Introductory Notes on Aquinas’s The Will of God
l’uomo nello stato bestiale ama solamente la sua salvezza (in his beastly state, man loves solely his salvation/safety)[1] In the “Of God’s Will” (De voluntate Dei) section…
Love and Other Conversions
Sometimes individuals change not only their belief systems but their deepest selves and life orientations. Conversion, in the empirical sense, usually refers to a person’s newfound acceptance…
What’s My Relation to God as of Now?
From my earliest memories, the question, Is there a God, wasn’t a question I asked. This though, once I grew up, I got to be a philosopher…
God the Father
Some things are simpler than we give them credit for. Contemplative prayer requires stilling the mind and being attentive because being a self-obsessed distracted chatterbox is the…
Grant, Time, and Eternity
Introduction Over the course of his prodigious career, George Grant, on a number of occasions, undertook to rethink both himself and his relationship to philosophy and theology.…
God – Pictures at an Exhibition
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus…
Quantum Mechanics and Religion Revisited
At a 1932 conference on quantum mechanics it was suggested that physicists should not worry about what quantum mechanics indicates about the nature of reality and they…
Is Life Worth Living?
Faith and Hope Discerning the nature of ultimate reality is a matter of intuition.[1] A religious experience, for instance, needs to be interpreted and understood by the…
René Girard – Imitation and Life Without God
In preparation for teaching a literature course in the 1950s, René Girard reread some of the classic novels. In the process, he realized that the novelists had…
Is God Omniscient?
The Person shares in the Divine as being made in the image of God. We too are free. We are co-creators with God; He in His macrocosm…
Where is God in Suffering?
Where is God in Suffering? Brendan Purcell. Veritas Publications, Dublin, 2016. The apparent injustice of bad things happening to good people—as well as the reverse—has for…
Political Religion and the Death of God
Political Religion and the Death of God. Linda C. Raeder. N. Palm Beach: Sanctuary Cove Publishing, 2017. Although it seems more appropriate to call this slender…
Looking at the Big Questions
ERIC O'CONNOR: I remarked to you yesterday that I had found your use of apeiron a bit ambiguous; it meant "limitless" in a good sense at some…
Why Democracy Requires God
[Through seeking] the divine, the loving reaching out beyond ourselves toward the divine in the philosophical experience and the loving encounter through the Word in the pneumatic…
Roger Scruton’s The Soul of the World
The Soul of the World . Roger Scruton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. These Stanton Lectures at the Divinity Faculty of the University of Cambridge…