In approximately 60 BC, the Roman poet Lucretius wrote On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura). In the tradition of Parmenides’ On...

According to a popular conception of intellectual history, mythology is characteristic of human pre-history. In this view, mythology was...

For most of us, our first encounter with “morality” comes through our parents (or parent figures). As we graduate from babyhood to...

Deuteronomy, the last book of the Torah, the 5th book of the Bible, consists of 34 Chapters containing on average about 35 verses each....

What is the relationship between God and the world, between the Kingdom of Heaven and the material universe? Ultimately, this one...

(Toward the end of his life, A. J. Ayer, British philosopher and the father of Logical Positivism, gave a lecture on the Meaning of Life....

Relax. This isn’t an article about the practice of Kundalini Yoga. (Even I know my limits.) In 1932 Carl Gustav Jung delivered a series...

The world consists entirely of events. Events have elements but not parts: they are indivisible because they are self-reflective and...

An earlier essay in this collection, The Problem of Good, showed that the famous “Problem of Evil” is really just a special case...

“Those who go forth weeping, carrying sacks of seed, Will return with cries of joy, carrying their bundled sheaves.” According to the...

Have you ever been in a fun house? If so, you probably visited the Hall of Mirrors. You enter and all around you are mirrors. You look...

One morning, I was standing on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, looking across to Philadelphia. As I was accompanied by several...

Theology 101 is comprehensive…but not complete. Questions remain to be answered, themes need to be further developed. Think of this as an...

Although the story is told twice, once in Matthew and once in Luke, both versions amount to a single account of Jesus teaching his...

The Book of Psalms consists of 150 songs praising and exhorting God. While Psalms of praise and Psalms of exhortation arise out ot very...

A very, very long time ago, when I was young, our favorite days of the year were Christmas and Halloween, not necessarily in that order....

According to the website, Catholic Culture, the Blessed Trinity is “the fundamental dogma on which everything in Christianity is based.”...

Lewis Carroll’s second novel about his young heroine, Alice (you know Alice…of Wonderland fame), is titled Through the Looking-Glass and...

The Judeo-Christian tradition includes upwards of 80 books of scripture (depending on whose cannon you’re following), but I think a...

Creationism is the belief that the cosmos, the earth, living organisms, and/or human beings came to be instantaneously in something very...