Article: Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., on Ecophobia (REVIEW ESSAY) - Today I sing of Father Daniel P. Horan s superb column titled Considering the spiritual roots of ecophobia amid climate change (dated September 21, 2023) at the website of the National Catholic Reporter.
Article: Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., on Ecophobia (REVIEW ESSAY) - Today I sing of Father Daniel P. Horan s superb column titled Considering the spiritual roots of ecophobia amid climate change (dated September 21, 2023) at the website of the National Catholic Reporter.
Article: Walter J. Ong versus Pope Francis (REVIEW ESSAY) - In recently published remarks, Pope Francis characterizes conservative anti-Francis American Catholics as being backward-looking not forward-looking as he sees himself. But he himself is not sufficiently backward-looking regarding the Doctrine of Discovery. The American Jesuit scholar Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) suggests that we need to be both backward-looking and forward-looking.
Article: Charles Taylor on Our Secular Age (REVIEW ESSAY) - In light of the late Ronald F. Inglehart s 2021 book Religion s Sudden Decline: What s Causing it, and What Comes Next? (Oxford University Press), it is time to revisit Charles Taylor s 2007 875-page book A Secular Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) and the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003).
Article: Walter Ong (1912-2003) on Peter Ramus (1515-1572) (REVIEW ESSAY) - My favorite scholar is the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). With the financial assistance of two Guggenheim Fellowships, he undertook a massive doctoral dissertation on the French Renaissance logician and educational reformer and Protestant martyr Peter Ramus (1515-1572) which I examine.