Timothy Troutner
@troutsky.bsky.social
Theology prof at Assumption University
| Apophaticism, Xology, and Speculative Metaphysics | Idealism and Neoplatonism | Christian Mysticism and French Religious Thought
| Apophaticism, Xology, and Speculative Metaphysics | Idealism and Neoplatonism | Christian Mysticism and French Religious Thought
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Timothy Troutner
@troutsky.bsky.social
· Nov 18
A Wild Logos | Tim Troutner | Substack
My personal Substack. Click to read A Wild Logos, by Tim Troutner, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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This is my Substack, where I mostly post about Neoplatonism, Idealism, and Speculative Theology.
If you are in Boston for AAR 2025, consider attending my paper in the Plato and Platonisms unit. That is, if Sarah has not given birth by then (it's just 3 days before the due date)!
Monday, November 24th 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Sheraton, Arnold Arboretum (Fifth Floor)
Monday, November 24th 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Sheraton, Arnold Arboretum (Fifth Floor)
November 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
If you are in Boston for AAR 2025, consider attending my paper in the Plato and Platonisms unit. That is, if Sarah has not given birth by then (it's just 3 days before the due date)!
Monday, November 24th 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Sheraton, Arnold Arboretum (Fifth Floor)
Monday, November 24th 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Sheraton, Arnold Arboretum (Fifth Floor)
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Got my first email from a student who has a parent being deported. It's bad out there.
October 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Got my first email from a student who has a parent being deported. It's bad out there.
In Hudson, MA (population ~20,000) the No Kings crowd was 750+.
October 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In Hudson, MA (population ~20,000) the No Kings crowd was 750+.
Visited my favorite bookstore again (Commonwealth Books in Newport)
October 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Visited my favorite bookstore again (Commonwealth Books in Newport)
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I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
My latest post takes on the Manichean vision of Stephen Miller, and the intellectual cover provided by the recent remarks of Hillsdale's Larry Arnn.
The Metaphysics of MAGA
Evil in the Eyes of Stephen Miller and Larry Arnn
open.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My latest post takes on the Manichean vision of Stephen Miller, and the intellectual cover provided by the recent remarks of Hillsdale's Larry Arnn.
I went to a Willi Carlisle concert last week and the first sentence he said upon taking the stage was: “It’s so good to be with you in these latter days of Babylon.” Check out Winged Victory. My album of the year so far.
September 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I went to a Willi Carlisle concert last week and the first sentence he said upon taking the stage was: “It’s so good to be with you in these latter days of Babylon.” Check out Winged Victory. My album of the year so far.
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First Things is now running interference for Jeffrey Epstein if you were wondering how things are going over there
September 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
First Things is now running interference for Jeffrey Epstein if you were wondering how things are going over there
Reports that ICE is on the Boston College campus currently
September 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reports that ICE is on the Boston College campus currently
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
The second installment of my philosophical dialogue has now been published. I re-examine the interpretative problem of Chalcedon and then dive into the various senses of the term "identity."
Christology: Analogy or Identity? (Part II)
Chalcedon Revisited and a Philosophical Interlude
open.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The second installment of my philosophical dialogue has now been published. I re-examine the interpretative problem of Chalcedon and then dive into the various senses of the term "identity."
My latest post: Cosmic Return and the Victims of ICE
July 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My latest post: Cosmic Return and the Victims of ICE
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I spent most of today seeking to meet with one of the many victims of ICE raids currently jailed in Downtown LA.
While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible.
What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.
While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible.
What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.
June 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I spent most of today seeking to meet with one of the many victims of ICE raids currently jailed in Downtown LA.
While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible.
What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.
While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible.
What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.
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That it may please thee to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; and to bestow freedom upon all peoples,
We beesech thee to hear us, good Lord. ⚓
We beesech thee to hear us, good Lord. ⚓
June 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
That it may please thee to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord; and to bestow freedom upon all peoples,
We beesech thee to hear us, good Lord. ⚓
We beesech thee to hear us, good Lord. ⚓
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A short talk I gave on the Christian Humanism of Pope Francis, about a month before the Holy Father died. At Fordham University, it was a chance to say some things.
amigodefrodo.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/a...
amigodefrodo.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/a...
A short talk on the Christian Humanism of Pope Francis, given at Fordham University, about a month before his passing from this life
I gave this reflection on Pope Francis at Fordham University on March 13, 2025, about a month before the Holy Father died. I was part of a panel of theologians more distinguished than I. I publish …
amigodefrodo.wordpress.com
June 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
A short talk I gave on the Christian Humanism of Pope Francis, about a month before the Holy Father died. At Fordham University, it was a chance to say some things.
amigodefrodo.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/a...
amigodefrodo.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/a...
Christology: Analogy or Identity?
"Is it not simpler to say that Christ is no instance of analogy because analogy is not the whole truth of his Person, any more than it is the truth of the cosmos, the Truth he is?"
open.substack.com/pub/awildlog...
"Is it not simpler to say that Christ is no instance of analogy because analogy is not the whole truth of his Person, any more than it is the truth of the cosmos, the Truth he is?"
open.substack.com/pub/awildlog...
Christology: Analogy or Identity?
A Dialogue About the Current Controversy
open.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Christology: Analogy or Identity?
"Is it not simpler to say that Christ is no instance of analogy because analogy is not the whole truth of his Person, any more than it is the truth of the cosmos, the Truth he is?"
open.substack.com/pub/awildlog...
"Is it not simpler to say that Christ is no instance of analogy because analogy is not the whole truth of his Person, any more than it is the truth of the cosmos, the Truth he is?"
open.substack.com/pub/awildlog...
OK I did it.
The Philosophy of Sebastian Rödl: An Introduction
Overview, Biography, and Major Writings
open.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
OK I did it.
Rahner: the hidden basis for all Christological debates in Catholicism today is the difference between Chalcedonism and Neochaldedonism
June 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Rahner: the hidden basis for all Christological debates in Catholicism today is the difference between Chalcedonism and Neochaldedonism
Rahner is famous for the identity of economic and immanent Trinity. Here he explains that this identity is what Hegel would call a speculative proposition: an identity which includes difference as its self-difference. A living sameness which produces and sublates otherness.
June 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Rahner is famous for the identity of economic and immanent Trinity. Here he explains that this identity is what Hegel would call a speculative proposition: an identity which includes difference as its self-difference. A living sameness which produces and sublates otherness.
No Kings Worcester was massive
June 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
No Kings Worcester was massive
No Kings in Hudson, MA. I estimate 200 protestors, which was impressive for the town's size.
50+% of signs were patriotic (Founding Fathers, veterans, civil liberties), 30% #Resist (Drumpf, orange etc.), 20% Pride themed.
Very moving.
50+% of signs were patriotic (Founding Fathers, veterans, civil liberties), 30% #Resist (Drumpf, orange etc.), 20% Pride themed.
Very moving.
June 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
No Kings in Hudson, MA. I estimate 200 protestors, which was impressive for the town's size.
50+% of signs were patriotic (Founding Fathers, veterans, civil liberties), 30% #Resist (Drumpf, orange etc.), 20% Pride themed.
Very moving.
50+% of signs were patriotic (Founding Fathers, veterans, civil liberties), 30% #Resist (Drumpf, orange etc.), 20% Pride themed.
Very moving.
My latest:
What is Absolute Idealism?
On Self-Consciousness and Objectivity
open.substack.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
My latest:
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We are enveloped in a mystery.
We exist within God.
Not him there and us here.
There is nothing outside of God.
But creation has not known him.
And we will not know him until God is received to make his dwelling within us.
To this aim, the immense labor of the Christ.
We exist within God.
Not him there and us here.
There is nothing outside of God.
But creation has not known him.
And we will not know him until God is received to make his dwelling within us.
To this aim, the immense labor of the Christ.
May 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We are enveloped in a mystery.
We exist within God.
Not him there and us here.
There is nothing outside of God.
But creation has not known him.
And we will not know him until God is received to make his dwelling within us.
To this aim, the immense labor of the Christ.
We exist within God.
Not him there and us here.
There is nothing outside of God.
But creation has not known him.
And we will not know him until God is received to make his dwelling within us.
To this aim, the immense labor of the Christ.