The Social Pathologist

As the Church became more and more feminized, the predominance of feminine emotions encouraged both mystics and the theologians who counsele...

One of the other things I didn't like about Charles Taylor's book is his theory of secularisation. While he does not explicitly...

While the effects of an excarnational culture can most easily be seen in the domain of sexuality, it's most pernicious effects lay i...

But this understates the difficulties. That Christianity has often been seen as another form of Platonism, even worse in that it seems ...

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grac...

  who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,   quenched the power o...

One of the other aspects of Charles Taylor's book that bothered me was his understanding of the  forces behind the Reformation. As Ta...

One of the concepts that Taylor wants to put across in his book was that the process of secularisation was abetted by a loss of the sense of...

One of the main contentions of this blog is that politics is downstream from culture. Culture, itself is largely formed by values, which...

Unfortunately  I've been unwell for the last ten days and haven't been able to post. One of the reasons I put up the posts on modern...

"The priest is the law, prohibition, forbiddance," wrote the Abbe Larichesse of Cantal in an 1865 study of confession. Familiar w...

IN THE MID-1870's 35,387,703 of the 36,000,000 people in France were listed in the official census as Catholics. The rest declared them...