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Gottfried contra Straussians
Paul Gottfried has spent what might seem to some as an inordinate amount of his academic life quarreling with (if not outright decrying) the students of Leo Strauss (“Straussians” for short). Gottfried...
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Reading
Several years ago, when I was still Orthodox, I came across a brief piece in Touchstone by Fr. Patrick Reardon where he confessed to reading Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action as a form of Lenten...
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Back To Where?
I recently finished reading Fr. Dominic Bourmaud’s critical survey of 20th C. Catholic thought, One Hundred Years of Modernism (Angelus Press 2006, 356pp.). It’s a good (not great) book which sometimes...
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Loosely Connected Thoughts on Strauss, Aquinas, Ressourcement
[Note: I am writing these thoughts from memory. That is, I don’t have the works I cited directly in front of me and so if the very scant citations are wrong, I apologize. I hope, however, I haven’t...
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Of Possible Interest
Sometime this month TAN Books is scheduled to release The Council in Question: A Dialogue with Catholic Traditionalism. The title features an exchange between Fr. Aidan Nichols and Moyra Doorly, a...
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One More Thing
As something of a continuance of my earlier post, “Loosely Connected Thoughts on Strauss, Aquinas, and Ressourcement,” I want to highlight another possible area of convergence (or semi-convergence)...
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Corresponding with the Devil
I’m not sure how I missed this on my “book radar,” but Columbia University Press is set to release To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections, a one-volume translation of the correspondence between...
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Posner
I don’t write about “things legal” all that much anymore, though I must admit that I was genuinely happy to see that after more than three decades on the federal bench, Richard Posner will be releasing...
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Reading Up On Religious Liberty
As I mentioned in an earlier post, “Error Has No Rights,” there seems to be a great deal of confusion among Catholics of various stripes concerning the traditionalist Catholic critique of the doctrine...
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To Carl Schmitt
A bit ago, in “Corresponding with the Devil,” I highlighted the pending release of To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections (TCS) by the late Jacob Taubes. Apparently I misunderstood the book’s...
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Orthodox Readings of Aquinas
My best friend, interlibrary loan, recently acquainted me with Marcus Plested’s groundbreaking study, Orthodox Readings of Aquinas (ORA) (Oxford University Press 2012). Fittingly part of Oxford’s...
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Orthodox Readings of Aquinas – Part 2
For the second installment of my comments on Marcus Plested’s Orthodox Readings of Aquinas (ORA) (see the first post here), I want to take the liberty of looking at Plested’s account of the...
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Orthodox Readings of Aquinas – Part 3
For my third post on Marcus Plested’s Orthodox Readings of Aquinas (ORA) (see earlier posts here and here), I want to focus on difficulties certain Catholic camps might have with Plested’s work. I...
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Orthodox Readings of Aquinas – Part 4
Time constraints and other reading endeavors have conspired against me giving Marcus Plested’s Orthodox Readings of Aquinas a thorough second read. (You can read my earlier posts on the book here,...
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Schmemann
For those who have had the (dis)pleasure of following me from blog to blog, pseudonym to pseudonym, you may (or may not) have noticed a softening of my attitude toward the late great Orthodox priest....
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Schmitt
Alain de Benoist, considered by many to be one of the leading intellectual lights of the “European New Right” and a man who debated Jean-Luc Marion about the existence of God back in the 1960s, has...
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Senior Citizen Restoration
Last night I started reading John Senior’s The Restoration of Christian Culture, the followup to his rightly well-regarded Death of Christian Culture. After 20 or so pages, I found myself more annoyed...
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Liturgical Help
This may be a longshot dear readers, but I was wondering if anybody knew of an online source for: (1) The 1962 Liturgical Calendar according to the Redemptorist order; and (2) The liturgical...
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Reform
Yesterday I started reading Fr. Thomas Pott’s Byzantine Liturgical Reform: A Study of Liturgical Change in the Byzantine Tradition (SVS Press 2012). It’s the second installment in St. Vladimir’s...
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Strauss’ Context
Michael Zank, writing for the typically excellent online Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, tackles one of the more interesting books written on Leo Strauss: Richard Velkley’s Heidegger, Strauss, and...
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