Post Tagged 'thomism'

May 05, 2026

Practical Action in an Age of Decadence

Roger Scruton often wrote of oikophobia, the phenomenon, so prevalent in the modern West, of distrusting one’s own home, society, and cultural inheritance. The culture of repudiation is one-directional, however, valorizing “the other” at the expense of ourselves—we can do no right while they can do no wrong. Continue Reading...

March 07, 2013

Orthodoxy and Natural Law: A Reappraisal

At Ethika Politika today, I examine the recent critique by David Bentley Hart in the most recent issue of First Things of the use of natural law in public discourse in my article, “Natural Law, Public Policy, and the Uncanny Voice of Conscience.” Continue Reading...

January 23, 2012

St. Thomas Aquinas Week in Grand Rapids

Each year my alma mater, Aquinas College of Grand Rapids, Mich., invites students, faculty, staff, and members of the local community to take part in a wide range of activities throughout the week of January 28th to celebrate the feast of our patron saint. Continue Reading...

November 13, 2006

The Catholicity of the Reformation: Musings on Reason, Will, and Natural Law, Part 7

This post concludes my series on the largely forgotten catholicity of Protestant ethics, with a few brief remarks and reflections. My goal for this series, as stated in Part 1, was to show that voluntarism and nominalism are not the same thing, that two important Reformed theologians (Peter Martyr Vermigli and Jerome Zanchi) had more than a passing interest in Thomism (or intellectualism as Pope Benedict XVI referred to it in his now famous Regensburg address), and that evangelicals need to revisit their wariness on the capacity of reason to discern moral truth. Continue Reading...