The following is a response to David S. Yeagos Modern but Not Liberal . The other response, by Shalom Carmy, can be found here . How we are to evaluate and challenge creatively the heirs of modern liberalism depends on what we take freedom to be, and not to be. Our era has . . . . Continue Reading »
Abelard, claimed St. Bernard, was a logic-chopping rationalist whose writings were symptomatic of the anti-contemplative theology of the universities. The true theologian is a monastic contemplative. Luther had harsh things to say about Aristotle and the Scholastics who appealed to him. The age we . . . . Continue Reading »
Introduction to Scholastic Theology by Ulrich G. Leinsle trans. Michael J. Miller Catholic University of America, 392 pages, $29.95 The standard narratives of twentieth-century Catholic theology written in the past forty years typically depict the ways in which modern Catholic theologians managed . . . . Continue Reading »
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