I just returned from a fantastic conference on gender ideology in Denver. I use ideology in the Voegelinian sense, as a deformation of the metaxy […]
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Dr. David Fleischacker has his MA in Philosophy from Boston College (1992), MA in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America (1996), and his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America (2004). He currently holds the St. John Henry Newman Chair of Liberal Arts at the University of Mary, Bismarck, North Dakota.
Insight into Chemistry: Introduction
by David Fleischacker In Insight, Lonergan makes use of chemistry as one of the examples of higher and lower genii of things in this universe. […]
A Descriptive Metaphysics: An Analogy for the Science of Metaphysics
By David Fleischacker, PhD First Draft Metaphysics as a science seeks to build a comprehensive and generic viewpoint of the universe that is thus far […]
The Motherly Impulse
by David Fleischacker Generally, one thinks of nurturing when one thinks of motherhood. Usually I find a guttural revolt against this idea today. Yet intrinsically […]
Perfection in Suffering on the Cross: A Transcendental-Metaphysical Analysis
[If you had seen this piece during the first hour it was posted, I apologize for the confusion. I dictate these blogs into a program, […]
Finality, Love, Marriage: Tensions and Contradictions in Love, Part 9
by David Fleischacker, Ph.D. I have decided to return to an earlier sequence of blogs that are commentaries on Lonergan’s 1943 essay, “Finality, Love, and […]
Reality or Being — Are these the same?
by Dr. David Fleischacker This one is more for those who have studied Lonergan a bit. Sorry to those who have not. Though most today […]
Judgment and the Recovery of Being
by Dr. David Fleischacker Lonergan’s explanatory formulation of the interior structure of judgment dismantles one of the great culprits of the modern world that has […]
Isomorphic Existentialism
Existential Isomorphism By Dr. David Fleischacker I would like to make a simple statement. The finality of the human person is one of existential isomorphism. […]
From David Fleischacker
Just a quick note. I will be publishing a reflection every Friday at 3 pm. Most of these will be short pointers and thoughts about […]