Experimental Theology


...trudging into the distance in the bleeding stinking mad shadow of Jesus...the Lord out of dust had created him, had made him blood and nerve and mind, had made him to bleed and weep and think, and set him in a world of loss and fire... --Flannery O'Connor

10.27.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 6, Seen and Forgiven

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In the last post I described Karl Rahner's description of making contact with our ontological ground. And recall, Rahner argues that thi...
10.24.2025

Pslam 125

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"Those who trust in the Lord are as secure as Mount Zion" The translations render the first line of Psalm 125 slightly differentl...
10.23.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 5, Anonymous Christians

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In Gaudum et spes , Vatican 2 describes the vocation and fate of the Christian:  The Christian man, conformed to the likeness of that Son Wh...
10.22.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 4, The Substance of All Virtue

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In the last two posts I've been dwelling upon the association between well-being and ontology, how our flourishing flows from attunement...
10.21.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 3, The Grain of the Universe

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Another way to describe the relationship between well-being and ontology is to observe how the Old and New Testaments portray "the grai...
10.20.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 2, Maximus and Julian

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In his theology Maximus the Confessor deploys a triadic structure describing the relationships between being, well-being, and eternal well-b...
10.19.2025

Psalm 124

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“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side” At the start of a lecture concerning the role of God in our mental health, I begin by ask...
10.16.2025

Well-Being and Ontology: Part 1, Flourishing Pointing Toward Ontology

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Since the publication of The Shape of Joy I've spent a lot of time pondering the relationship between ontology and well-being. That is ...
10.15.2025

Visiting Julian

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In light of yesterday's post about Julian of Norwich, in June Jana and I visited St. Julian's Church in Norwich.  This was the churc...
10.14.2025

The Quantity of a Hazelnut

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One of the most famous passages in Julian of Norwich's Revelations of the Divine Love is her vision of the hazelnut from Chapter 5:  An...
10.13.2025

Reflections on Faith and Politics: Part 3, The Threat of Worldview Defense

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In his book  The Denial of Death  Ernest Becker argued that, in the face of death, we pursue self-esteem and significance by performing with...
10.10.2025

Psalm 123

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"show us favor, for we’ve had more than enough contempt" Many scholars place the composition of Psalm 123 after Israel's exile...
10.09.2025

Reflections on Faith and Politics: Part 2, We've Lost Track of Virtue

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One of the reasons I think Christianity's relationship with politics has become so toxic and dysfunctional is because political issues h...
10.08.2025

Reflections on Faith and Politics: Part 1, Between Nihilism and Idolatry

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I've been ruminating, again, about faith and politics. A topic, given our times, that I come back to again and again. In this post I wan...
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