On Being a Christian Philosopher

Throughout the past weeks I have had a certain theme (or perhaps question) on my mind: the relationship between Christian faith and philosophy. This question has roots in an ever broader (perennial) question, which concerns the relationship between reason and revelation (or as Tertullian put it: “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?”). As many [...]

Thank You John Milbank (Or, Why I Am Returning to Augustine)

While working through John Milbank’s essay “Augustine and the Indo-European Soul,” I came across a paragraph that “confirmed” for me the proper relationship between philosophy and theology, and also the proper relationship between myself and St. Augustine. Milbank writes:
For Augustine, the objectifying gaze of philosophy without love produces no truth, but merely satisfies a perverse [...]