Legitimacy
There is an impromptu symposium on legitimacy, sovereignty, and the duty to obey the law over at the traditionalist Catholic blog The Josias, from Daniel Lendman, Felix de St. Vincent, and Elliot Milco. What […]
There is an impromptu symposium on legitimacy, sovereignty, and the duty to obey the law over at the traditionalist Catholic blog The Josias, from Daniel Lendman, Felix de St. Vincent, and Elliot Milco. What […]
We usually think of tradition as a source of authority or auctoritas. The “traditional” society is a byword for pre-critical social hierarchies. Alasdair MacIntyre, however, is interested in drilling down into […]
Political theology is not exclusively the domain of postsecularists. Victoria Kahn’s The Future of Illusion — an homage to Freud’s 1927 The Future of the Illusion — takes issue with the assumption that […]
It is easy to see how one’s neighbors might bear the taint of original sin. So what could be more viable than the doctrine of original sin when it comes […]
A few months ago, we spotlighted a Jacobin piece by historian Thomas J. Sugrue about how white liberals and Black Power leaders alike created the myth of a moderate Martin Luther King, […]
Would the sinless be governed? The question drives a wedge between Thomas Aquinas and Augustine, according to Paul Weithman. In City of God, Augustine implies — if we follow the classic […]
Augustine and Kierkegaard bookend the complex sacred time of the Christian Age. Augustine’s critique of the Physicalists in the City of God was the last critique of ancient pagan time, while Kierkegaard’s critique of […]
Henri de Lubac strongly cautioned theologians who imprudently politicized theology by justifying overreaching ecclesial power. In Beyond Secular Order, John Milbank takes Henri de Lubac to task in a striking footnote: “For while […]
Steve’s épater la bourgeoisie shtick only goes so far, so he agrees with Ross Douthat that communism is not on the horizon for millennials. Should it be? Slavoj Žižek, Bruno Bosteels, and Jodi Dean have articulated […]
Henri de Lubac’s Corpus Mysticum is a refreshing text. For one, it offers a genealogy of the Reformation that delves bravely into the Middle Ages. Those who identify as Protestants will […]