Mimetic theory & 19th c. German theology. New book on faith & reason w/ CUA Press. Editor of Oxford Hist. of Mod. German Theo. Translator of Möhler. Phlegmatic.
Nov 24, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Thread on the Catholic thing in the context of a new center, from a talk given earlier this fall: "Good theology, in my estimation, almost always bleeds into other disciplines—philosophy, history, philology, etc.… Catholicism behaves in history like a wildfire. 1/7
"It brings light, but also burns, and it transforms the landscape where it appears. It both meets cultures & at the same time is its own culture. A center for the study of global Catholicism, in my estimation, aspires to be as fearless as a fire. 2/7
Apr 15, 2019 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Finished a book I've been pecking away at for months, Michael Gross's The War Against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in 19th c. Germany (see 22 Nov. post for cover art). Follow thread for thoughts meant to offend all.
2/ The case is made persuasively that the liberal project rightly sees the Catholic Church as its most obvious enemy. Gross is a good historian. So good, I wish he were writing more. But here's where the offense comes in...
