My review of Guy Mansini’s excellent new book The Development of Dogma: A Systematic Account appears in the May 2024 issue of First Things .
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/04/mansini-on-development-of-doctrine.html
This week the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) published the Declaration Dignitas Infinita , on the topic of human dignity. I am as weary as anyone of the circumstance that it has...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/04/two-problems-with-dignitas-infinita.html
Liberalism is to the social order what AIDS is to the body. By relegating the truths of natural law and divine revelation to the private sphere, it destroys the immune system of the body polit...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/04/western-civilizations-immunodeficiency.html
This week, cartoonist Ed Piskor committed suicide in the wake of the relentless online pillorying and overnight destruction of his career that followed upon allegations of sexual misconduct, of ...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/04/ed-piskor-1982-2024.html
My essay “The Illusion of Artificial Intelligence” appears in the latest issue of the Word on Fire Institute’s journal Evangelization & Culture.
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-illusion-of-ai.html
In a recent article at Catholic Answers titled “Hope for Judas?” Jimmy Akin tells us that though he used to find convincing the traditional view that Judas is damned, it now seems to him th...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/03/wishful-thinking-for-judas.html
Did Spanish Scholastic thinkers influence British liberalism? You can now access my Religion and Liberty review of Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought: New Horizons i...
Continuing our look at Jacques Maritain’s Three Reformers: Luther, Descartes, Rousseau, let’s consider some arresting passages on the conception of human nature the modern world has inherit...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/03/mind-matter-and-malleability.html
Modern moral discourse often refers to “persons” and to “individuals” as if the notions were more or less interchangeable. But that is not the case. In his book Three Reformers: Luth...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-metaphysics-of-individualism.html
Consider four groups that, one might think, couldn’t be more different: Pope Francis’s most zealous defenders; sedevacantists; Protestants; and Catholics who have recently left the Church (f...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/03/when-do-popes-speak-ex-cathedra.html
Popes speak infallibly when they either proclaim some doctrine ex cathedra, or reiterate some doctrine that has already been taught infallibly by virtue of being a consistent teaching of the ord...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-counts-as-magisterial-teaching.html
Dear reader, if it seems your comment has not been approved, sometimes it actually has been approved even if you don’t see it. The reason is that once a combox reaches 200 comments, the Bl...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-comment-on-comments.html
Avicenna, Aquinas, and Leibniz all present versions of what would today be called the argument from contingency for the existence of a divine necessary being. Their versions are interestingly ...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/02/avicenna-aquinas-and-leibniz-on.html
In a new article at Postliberal Order , I discuss the disturbing parallels between the woke phenomenon and the medieval Catharist or Albigensian heresy, a movement so fanatical and virulent that...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-heresy-with-thousand-faces.html
Had a great time visiting the United States Military Academy at West Point this week for a Thomistic Institute talk on the theme “Do You Have an Immortal Soul?” Thank you TI and cadets!
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/01/immortal-souls-at-west-point.html
The reputation of 1993’s The Vanishing has suffered because critics judge it inferior to the 1988 Dutch movie of which it was a remake. But considered on its own terms, it is a solid enough...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/01/voluntarism-in-vanishing.html
Peter Adamson’s new book Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): A Very Short Introduction is an excellent primer on the great medieval Islamic philosopher. After a biographical chapter, it treats Avicenna�...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/01/avicennas-flying-man.html
My friends, it exists. More news later.
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/01/progress-report.html
My review of the anthology Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought: New Horizons in Politics, Law, and Rights , edited by Leopoldo Prieto López and José Luis Cendejas Bu...
Let’s open the New Year with an open thread. Now’s the time at last to bring up that otherwise off-topic comment that keeps getting deleted, or anything else you like. From Art Nouveau t...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2024/01/new-years-open-thread.html
In my recent article on the controversy over Fiducia Supplicans , I noted three problems with the document’s qualified permission of blessings for “couples” of a same-sex or other “irre...
By now many readers of this blog will likely have heard about Fiducia Supplicans and the worldwide controversy it has generated, which may end up being even more bitter and momentous than the m...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-scandal-of-fiducia-supplicans.html
Some time back, Alex O’Connor and I recorded a discussion of the Aristotelian argument from motion for the existence of God, for his Within Reason podcast. The episode is now available on Yo...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-aristotelian-proof-on-within-reason.html
Over at his Substack, Kevin Vallier responds to my recent review at The Josias of his book All the Kingdoms of the World . Vallier claims that I “mislead the reader” vis-à-vis his chara...
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2023/12/on-vallier-vermeule-and-straw-men.html
Over at The Josias , I critique Kevin Vallier’s new book All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism .
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2023/12/contra-vallier-on-integralism.html