Matthew Guertin
@ghostowlredux.bsky.social
Lonergan + Gadamer bro | philosopher-writer and poet thing | teacher of English | dark Nyssian | https://linktr.ee/mguertin | 🏳️🌈
The latest over at the Substack. Do check it out and let me know what you think!
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The Fruits of the Spirit are Empirically Given
Some prefatory remarks to a critique of Christian life
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July 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The latest over at the Substack. Do check it out and let me know what you think!
substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/tho...
substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/tho...
Well, after years of struggle and trying to find my way, I have at least found a partner for mylife's way—a blessing not everyone is given. Here's to many and prosperous years together! Please pray for us.
June 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Well, after years of struggle and trying to find my way, I have at least found a partner for mylife's way—a blessing not everyone is given. Here's to many and prosperous years together! Please pray for us.
The latest over at A Fitting Room for Thoughts (my Substack), which tries a bit to get at the difference between life and non-life—something especially important to get at as we think about how AI may help or hinder our flourishing as *living* beings: thoughtfittingroom.substack.com/p/corpses-ro...
Corpses Rotting and Spiders Spinning
On surfaces and inwardness; or, a very brief essay on life
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May 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The latest over at A Fitting Room for Thoughts (my Substack), which tries a bit to get at the difference between life and non-life—something especially important to get at as we think about how AI may help or hinder our flourishing as *living* beings: thoughtfittingroom.substack.com/p/corpses-ro...
Reposted by Matthew Guertin
“Neither the sacraments nor the hierarchic shape of the church are decoys and displays for the world; they are, rather, in their significance turned inward. One might almost say [that] they are the arcana of the church… The sacraments and the hierarchy are means.”
Balthasar
Balthasar
May 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“Neither the sacraments nor the hierarchic shape of the church are decoys and displays for the world; they are, rather, in their significance turned inward. One might almost say [that] they are the arcana of the church… The sacraments and the hierarchy are means.”
Balthasar
Balthasar
Oh yeah, hey, all! I keep forgetting that people are here and that this place doesn't censor Substack links! Anyway, new piece over at the 'Stack. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/thoughtf...
Religion, Truth, and the Limits of Judgment
A long-form sketch of some issues
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April 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Oh yeah, hey, all! I keep forgetting that people are here and that this place doesn't censor Substack links! Anyway, new piece over at the 'Stack. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/thoughtf...
A good, intense, and engaging 10 days with my fiancee coming to an end—but looking forward to a long, full, and loving future.
March 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A good, intense, and engaging 10 days with my fiancee coming to an end—but looking forward to a long, full, and loving future.
Honestly, starting a local coffee house/book store, an alternative to bars where people can come and have quiet conversations and read and find new books, even play chess and Reversi and listen to lectures and such, would be rad and hot; not sure how to get funding to make that happen, though.
February 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Honestly, starting a local coffee house/book store, an alternative to bars where people can come and have quiet conversations and read and find new books, even play chess and Reversi and listen to lectures and such, would be rad and hot; not sure how to get funding to make that happen, though.
Another piece now up over at the Substack, this one a follow-up to my last piece on memory and understanding. Check it out and let me know your thoughts!
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November 17, 2024 at 7:35 AM
Another piece now up over at the Substack, this one a follow-up to my last piece on memory and understanding. Check it out and let me know your thoughts!
open.substack.com/pub/thoughtf...
open.substack.com/pub/thoughtf...
Reposted by Matthew Guertin
Lotta folks suffer from this ailment
November 16, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Lotta folks suffer from this ailment
A thing I just wrote over at my Substack: thoughtfittingroom.substack.com/p/memory-and...
Memory and Understanding
A reflection
thoughtfittingroom.substack.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:12 AM
A thing I just wrote over at my Substack: thoughtfittingroom.substack.com/p/memory-and...
Reposted by Matthew Guertin
An inverse insight, I am told, is really only nameable once you have a larger explanatory context. Which is annoying. I need a salvific horizon to even know that sin cannot be understood?? What do you mean I need to know more to know what I can’t know, how dare you,,,
Me, time traveling to myself in the 7th grade: “actually, you *are* going to need to know this when you’re an adult, but it’s really hard for me to explain why”
God dammit Bernard Lonergan I barely remember what special relativity is and now it’s a big example in your philosophy book.
November 15, 2024 at 11:48 PM
An inverse insight, I am told, is really only nameable once you have a larger explanatory context. Which is annoying. I need a salvific horizon to even know that sin cannot be understood?? What do you mean I need to know more to know what I can’t know, how dare you,,,
A piece I just posted over at the Substack. Would love any thoughts you're willing to share! open.substack.com/pub/thoughtf...
The Good of Limits
Each one of us is the result of limitations realized, of just one possible state of affairs actualized to the exclusion of an infinity of others. Except in extremely rare cases, each one of us came ab...
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May 17, 2024 at 5:54 PM
A piece I just posted over at the Substack. Would love any thoughts you're willing to share! open.substack.com/pub/thoughtf...