An Excerpt from Kierkegaard’s ‘Works of Love’ (1847)
That Love Abides. “Love never fails” – it abides. When a child has been gone all day among strangers and thinks he ought to go home but is afraid to […]
Author Archives: Steven Dunn
G.K. Chesterton on the ‘Blessed Virgin’
If the world wanted what is called a noncontroversial aspect of Christianity, it would probably select Christmas. Yet it is obviously bound up with what is supposed to be a […]
Michael Novak on Nihilism and ‘The Moral Principle’
“I have tested this moral principle and have found it fortifying: Accept the experience of nothingness as a gift, search deep into it, live by its living streams. One thing […]
God and Natural Disasters
Let us consider an instance of antithesis. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) once wrote a book-length treatise entitled Theodicy (1709) which contains his treatment of the problem of evil. The gist […]
Four Metaphysical Principles Regarding Our Knowledge of God
While the question of God’s existence is an important one, this is only one side of the objective/subjective coin. That is, we have asked the (objective) metaphysical question “Does God […]
The Letters of St. Basil
I wanted to put together several letters sent from St. Basil the Great (Archbishop of Caesarea) to friends, philosophers, widows, heretics, and so forth for purposes of encouragement. I think […]
What is God?
There is a story regarding philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) in his youth asking his teacher a simple question, “What is God?” The teacher was stumped and didn’t know […]
