Traditionally, the dark night of sense has been understood as the decisive transition from the purgative way to the illuminative way. It is the moment in which God begins to wean the soul from its dependence on sensible consolations, discursive...

for Understanding Orthodoxy, Heresy, and the Spirit of the Age Introduction The Church does not live outside history. She receives a revelation once given in Christ and entrusted to the apostles, yet she must confess that same truth amid Arian...

Introduction Political life cannot be adequately explained by the dominance of a single ideology or system at any given moment in history. Rather, it is constituted by a dynamic equilibrium of competing goods, interests, and visions of the human person....

In our contemporary intellectual landscape, both postmodern philosophy and Buddhist thought have gained renewed attention for their penetrating analysis of human experience. While often seen as destabilizing or even corrosive to metaphysical certainty, they nonetheless contain a genuine insight—one that...

This is a summary of what I hope will turn into a larger project I. The Metaphysics of AI In the first section, I will deal with the metaphysics of artificial intelligence by dealing with its structure on how it...

Within doctrine, there are two poles which stand against each other and form the oppositional nature of paradox. The tendency of the mind is to seek to unify these poles, to make them one so as to resolve the paradox....

I often think about naive optimism that is present in country music. The main song that comes to mind is one in which the main line is, “I believe most people are good.” While I enjoy the general feel of...

It seems likely that most of what we know now about technology and the universe will eventually give way to new theories and new insights. It is also safe to assume that not only have we begun the quest to...

Paradox is one of the central structures of the mysteries of the Catholic faith. The way these paradoxes are traditionally formulated is “both/and.” For example, Jesus Christ is both fully divine and fully human. Likewise, the Most Holy Trinity is...