Understanding The Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O’Connor’s Narrative Art By Fr. Damian Ference. Word on Fire, 2023. Paperback, 280 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Henry T. Edmondson III. By her own admission, Flannery O’Connor was...
After Pandemic, After Modernity: The Relational Revolution By Giulio Maspero. St. Augustine’s Press, 2022. Paperback, 90 pages, $12. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. With the COVID-19 pandemic behind us, what the world needs to heal itself is Trinitarian spirituality....
The Gospel Truth: How We Can Know What Christ Taught By Gary Michuta. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2023. Hardcover, 176 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Unlike every other religion, Christianity stakes its entire claim to legitimacy on whether certain...
A Humanist in Reformation Politics: Philipp Melanchthon on Political Philosophy and Natural Law By Mads Langballe Jensen. Brill, 2019. Hardcover, 222 pages, $130.00. Reviewed by E.J. Hutchinson. It was not very long ago that answering the question of what Protestants...
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives By Robert D. Richardson. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 128 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. Death is a morbid topic, one that most people...
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