The Adventures of Captain Peabody

Future Heresies: A Thought Experiment The following post will most likely interest very few people; but, well, it interests me.  I have spen...

Death of the Son, Episode Five: Imperatrix, Dominus, Episcopus [ Episode One ;  Episode Two ;  Episode Three ; Episode Four ] When his visio...

Apophaticism, Incarnation, Bythos: A Response to Timothy Troutner's "Five Theses on Apophaticism" Once upon a time, there was ...

The Trinitarian Controversy as the Culmination of Ancient Platonism Recently, while engaged in scholarly work, I suddenly had a moment of re...

 Benedict XVI, 1927-2022 I have been meaning to write this essay since the death of Benedict XVI. I am just now getting to it. Lots of light...

Orthodox Schism, Orthodox War  I have written a great deal on this blog before over the Orthodox Schism between Moscow and Constantinople, w...

An Apologia for American Evangelicism There is a great need for narratives of the present and recent past that are not simply based on mass ...

Death of the Son (EP 1) [A mathematician friend recently challenged me to do something which he wanted to do but couldn't but which he c...

Note: Every possible kind of spoiler exists herein. Proceed at your own risk. The elusive, controversial American Catholic filmmaker ...

This is a (relatively) brief outline of Church-State relations, mostly just the big phases and conflicts, focusing on the West and on th...

Pope Martin I "The police would not allow the holy man to land, though he was suffering severe pain.  Instead they went ash...