Part 1: Finality, Love, and Marriage: Gender, Fecundity, and Horizontal Finality (Z’ to Z”) Part 2: Fecundity within Human Process: A few important distinctions and […]
Category: The Gift of Life
Series: Humanae Vitae
40 Years since Humanae Vitae: Lonergan, conception, and contraception. Part 1. 40 Years since Humanae Vitae, Part 2: Finality and Spermatozoan 40 years after Humanae […]
Series: When does the human person begin to exist?
When does the human person begin to exist? Part 1: To Be Distinct When does the human person begin to exist? Part 2: To be […]
Male and Female: A New Explanatory Paradigm
The following essay was preparatory for a lecture given at the Lonergan Institute in Washington, D.C. on December 9, 2023.
Thoughts on Eve
[Original published on another site May 11, 2019] by David Fleischacker Have you ever noticed what and when Eve in the book of Genesis says […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gender Ideology, Evolution, and Finality
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 […]
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, […]