My latest post takes on the Manichean vision of Stephen Miller, and the intellectual cover provided by the recent remarks of Hillsdale's Larry Arnn.

I went to a Willi Carlisle concert last week and the first sentence he said upon taking the stage was: “It’s so good to be with you in these latter days of Babylon.” Check out Winged Victory. My album of the year so far.

First Things is now running interference for Jeffrey Epstein if you were wondering how things are going over there

Reports that ICE is on the Boston College campus currently

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

The second installment of my philosophical dialogue has now been published. I re-examine the interpretative problem of Chalcedon and then dive into the various senses of the term "identity."

My latest post: Cosmic Return and the Victims of ICE

I spent most of today seeking to meet with one of the many victims of ICE raids currently jailed in Downtown LA. While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible. What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.

That it may please thee to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; and to bestow freedom upon all peoples, We beesech thee to hear us, good Lord. ⚓

A short talk I gave on the Christian Humanism of Pope Francis, about a month before the Holy Father died. At Fordham University, it was a chance to say some things. amigodefrodo.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/a...

Christology: Analogy or Identity? "Is it not simpler to say that Christ is no instance of analogy because analogy is not the whole truth of his Person, any more than it is the truth of the cosmos, the Truth he is?" open.substack.com/pub/awildlog...

OK I did it.

Rahner: the hidden basis for all Christological debates in Catholicism today is the difference between Chalcedonism and Neochaldedonism

Rahner is famous for the identity of economic and immanent Trinity. Here he explains that this identity is what Hegel would call a speculative proposition: an identity which includes difference as its self-difference. A living sameness which produces and sublates otherness.

No Kings Worcester was massive

No Kings in Hudson, MA. I estimate 200 protestors, which was impressive for the town's size. 50+% of signs were patriotic (Founding Fathers, veterans, civil liberties), 30% #Resist (Drumpf, orange etc.), 20% Pride themed. Very moving.

My latest:

We are enveloped in a mystery. We exist within God. Not him there and us here. There is nothing outside of God. But creation has not known him. And we will not know him until God is received to make his dwelling within us. To this aim, the immense labor of the Christ.

Dollar Book Swap near Dayton OH

Rödl, citing Aryeh Kosman: the mind's first apprehension of being is of the divinity of it, and the first expression of this apprehension in language is "hallelujah."

"The Divine Comedy is not a work of eschatology; it is not about the afterlife. It is essentially about this life, here and now."

I have finally posted part 1 of my review of Jordan Wood's book. I attempt to explain why the book has been so controversial and why it marks, as Milbank has suggested, a new era in theology. awildlogos.substack.com/p/crisis-of-...

Anyone have recommendations on the most important volumes of Rahner's Theological Investigations? I only have I and V. @kyriakos.bsky.social @jdw11.bsky.social

A starter pack for Knowing What's Going On

🚨Rödl cites McCabe's essay "Felix culpa" in his new book! 🚨

This seems to be the heart of the development from Plato to Aristotle, for Hegel - the fuller emergence of subjectivity - the development of abstract negation into negativity - the energy of separation as self-determination

We should all expect that Trump will send a US citizen to CECOT, and soon. The question is what we’re prepared to do about it

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

It is frequently claimed that Christianity achieves a “balance,” “harmony,” or “reconciliation” between faith and reason. While this is not without truth, it is often presented in a form tinged with the nostalgia for pure origins.

The publication of this book (this November) will be a major event. This is the big picture that was in the background in his previous works.

My AAR proposal was accepted! I will be presenting on "Damascius' Crisis of Participation and Our Own" as part of the Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit. The abstract is below.

Sebastian Rödl comments on the Epistle to the Romans:

Me: gives an absurdly Hegelian reading of Anselm for two weeks in class, about how the very thought of not knowing God by reason makes him cry Student thesis (via ChatGPT): Anselm thinks faith fills the gap of God being beyond human comprehension

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Can I explain Kant's Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason to freshmen? Well, I tried...

This is the gospel. Eckhart:

Rahner's Hearer of the Word is sublime. It's genuinely sublime.

Rödl on Anscombe/Geach: "This is also theologically questionable. It is questionable to leave an Aristotelian naturalism running underneath the belief in God."

I wrote a review 2 years ago of Jordan Wood's book that is lost in endless publication delays (and has possibly been pulled without telling me). I wonder if it will ever see the light of day. If not, I'll be looking for another venue.

AAR proposal is in.

Bp. Barron chose an interesting day (Ash Wednesday) to push his rightward turn to new heights.

Modern apophaticism is the collapse of the medieval spiritual itinerary. My latest:

James Doull

"This nexus [the scene of forgiveness between myself and another person] is the actuality of the Highest and the Whole. Being forgiven, and forgiving, is being forgiven by God." Sebastian Rodl

Now that I'm fully becoming an Aristotelian (idealist interpretation) my stance on the great Plato debate from a few months ago has changed *slightly*.

MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

HEGEL ON KNOWING GOD: "From this it follows that God can be known, for it is God's nature to reveal himself, to be manifest. Those who say that God is not revelatory do not speak from the standpoint of the Christian religion at any rate, for the Christian religion is called the revealed religion."

Rödl on God and world "God and the world... it's easier now to introduce the illimitable whole through the idea of the world because people just like it and speak about it as something innocent. People even in the philosophy of perception, they think that we perceive the world."

These are interesting times to be married to a Canadian.

I wrote up the insights I've arrived at in the last two years of teaching this text. Plus it's a sneak peak of future work on why we don't have to read Augustine as a voluntarist open.substack.com/pub/awildlog...