by David Fleischacker Description and Explanation: Mendel’s Pea Plants One good illustration of the dynamic relationship between description and explanation is found in Mendel’s breakthrough […]
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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.
Questions about the Relationship of Description and Explanation.
by David Fleischacker One of the areas that I have found to need further articulation in Lonergan’s writings is that of the scope and the […]
Light and Transcendence
If you glance through the liturgy of the hours and the divine office, you will notice the frequency that the word light is used. Of […]
The Conversion of Memory and Intentionality in St. Augustine’s Confessions
by David Fleischacker Last night, I met a seminarian who had been reading Saint Augustine’s Confessions and was discussing how much he liked the last […]
Indwelling
By David Fleischacker I am aware of at least two theological teachings that make significant use of the notion of indwelling. The first deals with […]
Conscience, Saint Thomas More, and Dr. Peter Kreeft
On Thursday evening, Dr. Kreeft spoke about Conscience on the Feast of Saint Thomas More and Saint John Fischer. It was a fantastic talk that […]
From Newton to Dalton: Physics to Chemistry
David Fleischacker, Ph.D. [May 26, 2009] If Newton’s physics and Dalton’s chemistry are related as a lower to a higher viewpoint, there must be some […]
When Does the Human Being Begin to Exist? Special Question 1: Is There a Valid Argument to Say that Human Life Begins at Implantation?
By Dr. David Fleischacker [This springs from a series of blogs titled “When does the human being begin to exist?” which I had written starting […]
Lonergan and the Shift to Method
by David Fleischacker Method can be looked at as technique. This of course entirely misses the meaning of method as Lonergan conceived of it. […]
Almost 50 Years Since Humanae Vitae: Statistics and Finality in Conception
[this was a piece drafted in 2008 when I had been publishing a series on Humanae Vitae. I had not published this one yet–and now […]