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

10.02.2025

The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 7, The Ontological Bifurcation of Modernity

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Having described some of the consequences associated with the loss of a Neoplatonic, participatory metaphysics, I want to say some things ab...
10.01.2025

The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 6, A Juridical Faith

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In the last post I turned to talk about the implications of our metaphysical loss in modernity. Specifically, with a loss of a participatory...
9.30.2025

The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 5, Losing the Analogy

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You've endured quite a few posts filled with history and theology. You might be getting impatient, wondering if any of this matters. So,...
9.29.2025

The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 4, The Neoplatonism of Thomas Aquinas

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When I was taught about Thomas Aquinas in college the story about him went something like this. Early Christian thought was Platonic. August...
9.26.2025

Psalm 121

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"I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?" With Psalm 121 we enter into the "Songs of Ascent." ...
9.25.2025

The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 3, "Converted to Our Use"

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In the last post we described Platonism through five negations from Lloyd Gerson. Platonism was antimaterialist, antimechanistic, antinomina...
9.24.2025

The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 2, The Good Soil of the Platonic Worldview

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In the last post I described how, prior to the Enlightenment, Christianity assumed a Platonic metaphysics. And how, in modernity, we've ...
9.23.2025

The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 1, The Background Glitch

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In what will be a rambling series I want to tell a story, make an argument, and then draw some diagnostic conclusions about Protestantism. P...
9.22.2025

The New Testament of the Tao Te Ching

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Last week I shared a reflection about intersections between Christianity and Taoism. If you're interested in exploring this further one ...
9.19.2025

Psalm 120

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"I have dwelt too long with those who hate peace." Goodness, after the events of the last two weeks this is how I feel. I have dwe...
9.18.2025

The Way of Water: Natural Law, the Tao, and Christ

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In Catholic thought natural law is primarily described as being inscribed upon human nature, the "moral law within." Humans posses...
9.17.2025

Value in Therapy: Part 6, Deep Flourishing

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I'm often better at raising questions than offering solutions. A classic academic trait. Always problematizing, always being critical, b...
9.16.2025

Value in Therapy: Part 5, Strong Relationality

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Over the last two posts I've made the argument that therapy is not as value-neutral as it claims to be. Rather, as Brent Slife, Greg Mar...
9.15.2025

Value in Therapy: Part 4, The Hidden Values of Therapy

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In the last post, I floated the view that therapy, far from being value-neutral, may be smuggling the values of liberalism into our pursuit ...
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