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 [...]

Transubstantiation and Language

Recently I have been picking up more literature from my favorite theological movement – Radical Orthodoxy. Catherine Pickstock, an RO theologian who will never cease to impress me with her rich prose and audacious claims, once again challenged me at the core of my Christian faith. While reading her essay, “Necrophilia: The Middle of Modernity, [...]

Obama is Victorious in Iowa

With a commanding lead over democratic rivals Clinton and Edwards, Barack Obama secured a victory in the Iowa caucus. Interestingly, the percentage of African-Americans in Iowa is a low 1%, which I think silences critics who assert that Obama will ride on the African-American vote. What the Iowa caucus shows us is that [...]

Top 5 Memorable Chapel Moments

I’m sure that many of you were waiting for something like this. While preparing to finish my last semester at NU, and consequently approaching my last few chapels, I decided to take some time to reflect on the years of chapel and produce a short list of favorite chapel speakers and moments. Enjoy.
#5: Castleberry telling [...]