Joseph Terry
@bktheologian.bsky.social
Philosopher & Theologian | Prof at CUNY (Kingsborough & York) | Co-Founder & Managing Director of Schola Sophia http://scholasophia.org
O’Regan’s reading of von Balthasar asks whether our concepts of freedom, history, and reconciliation still carry Christian memory albeit only severed from their source.
Retrieval is harder than critique
Retrieval is harder than critique
February 11, 2026 at 9:12 PM
O’Regan’s reading of von Balthasar asks whether our concepts of freedom, history, and reconciliation still carry Christian memory albeit only severed from their source.
Retrieval is harder than critique
Retrieval is harder than critique
Carrying my son through a museum, I was reminded: civilizations carve their questions in stone, but fathers must carve wisdom into hearts.
Faith is not escape from history. It is learning how to walk through it well.
Faith is not escape from history. It is learning how to walk through it well.
February 11, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Carrying my son through a museum, I was reminded: civilizations carve their questions in stone, but fathers must carve wisdom into hearts.
Faith is not escape from history. It is learning how to walk through it well.
Faith is not escape from history. It is learning how to walk through it well.
German philosophy at its best is not abstraction for abstraction’s sake, but a moral and metaphysical wager: that reason can still tell the truth about freedom, history, and meaning.
Hösle’s A Short History of German Philosophy reminds us that thinking is a vocation, not a pastime.
Hösle’s A Short History of German Philosophy reminds us that thinking is a vocation, not a pastime.
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
German philosophy at its best is not abstraction for abstraction’s sake, but a moral and metaphysical wager: that reason can still tell the truth about freedom, history, and meaning.
Hösle’s A Short History of German Philosophy reminds us that thinking is a vocation, not a pastime.
Hösle’s A Short History of German Philosophy reminds us that thinking is a vocation, not a pastime.
One of the greatest benefits AI offers us contemporary folk is that is reveals how stupid it is to think of knowledge from a purely utilitarian perspective rather than an invitation to contemplation.
February 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
One of the greatest benefits AI offers us contemporary folk is that is reveals how stupid it is to think of knowledge from a purely utilitarian perspective rather than an invitation to contemplation.