Maddison Reddie-Clifford
@mcliff.bsky.social
PhD Candidate University of Notre Dame Australia
Theology Philosophy and History nerd.
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Theology Philosophy and History nerd.
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My PhD begins its slow journey to external readers tonight.
So now I simply need to wait on the time delay of the holiday season for my fate to be known.
So now I simply need to wait on the time delay of the holiday season for my fate to be known.
December 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
My PhD begins its slow journey to external readers tonight.
So now I simply need to wait on the time delay of the holiday season for my fate to be known.
So now I simply need to wait on the time delay of the holiday season for my fate to be known.
I must confess I still do not like the push on gender inclusive language in academic writing. I often find it jarring when moving from French or German to English, and meaning can change when talking about distinctions of type.
Human person/being has ontological consequences that i can not mean.
Human person/being has ontological consequences that i can not mean.
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I must confess I still do not like the push on gender inclusive language in academic writing. I often find it jarring when moving from French or German to English, and meaning can change when talking about distinctions of type.
Human person/being has ontological consequences that i can not mean.
Human person/being has ontological consequences that i can not mean.
With the latest war crime revelations, surely we are at the point where serving US military will need to hang "for the good of the service"?
I mean machine gunning survivors in the water is an especially heinous crime.
Just make sure to hang everyone up the chain of command too.
I mean machine gunning survivors in the water is an especially heinous crime.
Just make sure to hang everyone up the chain of command too.
November 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM
With the latest war crime revelations, surely we are at the point where serving US military will need to hang "for the good of the service"?
I mean machine gunning survivors in the water is an especially heinous crime.
Just make sure to hang everyone up the chain of command too.
I mean machine gunning survivors in the water is an especially heinous crime.
Just make sure to hang everyone up the chain of command too.
If your metaphysics are not your prayer, and your prayer is not your metaphysics, and if you are not engaging in prayer/metaphysics in every thing you think, say, or do, are you really living a life of authentic life in the Lebenswelt
My therapist doesn’t let me get all professory too much but today she was feeling generous or something because I was allowed to explain the cosmic hierarchy of being at some length. I am a normal person worried about everyday things. Such as: how the cosmos is organized.
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
If your metaphysics are not your prayer, and your prayer is not your metaphysics, and if you are not engaging in prayer/metaphysics in every thing you think, say, or do, are you really living a life of authentic life in the Lebenswelt
Reposted by Maddison Reddie-Clifford
ah yes, everyday voices such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
ah yes, everyday voices such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch
At Friday drinks last week, I was arguing with a Gilsonian Thomist about a distinction between three meanings of body, using the German Korper and Leib as analogues to the Scholastic Materia Prima, and Materia Secundus, to justify why my theology's telos of "Man 'like' Angels" is not monophysite.
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
At Friday drinks last week, I was arguing with a Gilsonian Thomist about a distinction between three meanings of body, using the German Korper and Leib as analogues to the Scholastic Materia Prima, and Materia Secundus, to justify why my theology's telos of "Man 'like' Angels" is not monophysite.
I will once again reiterate my public desire to distinguish between integralists and Integrists...
The tendency to not make this distinction clear has enabled too many fans of the Action Francaise to claim ownership of the theological renewal of some of their bitterist enemies.
The tendency to not make this distinction clear has enabled too many fans of the Action Francaise to claim ownership of the theological renewal of some of their bitterist enemies.
Integralists seem to make the (frankly quite intuitive) mistake of thinking that cultures & societies sublate, & so order persons.
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
lol. amen!
I’ve gotten…obsessed with the social order question in part because I think (writing it now) Ratzinger’s habilitation is actually contributing quite intentionally towards a vision of social order (but not in an integralist way. integralists just get order so wrong)
I’ve gotten…obsessed with the social order question in part because I think (writing it now) Ratzinger’s habilitation is actually contributing quite intentionally towards a vision of social order (but not in an integralist way. integralists just get order so wrong)
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I will once again reiterate my public desire to distinguish between integralists and Integrists...
The tendency to not make this distinction clear has enabled too many fans of the Action Francaise to claim ownership of the theological renewal of some of their bitterist enemies.
The tendency to not make this distinction clear has enabled too many fans of the Action Francaise to claim ownership of the theological renewal of some of their bitterist enemies.
I wish more of these scholars would actually examine the early Christian movements before making the judgement about who is doing the special pleading...
While, yes, we must give creedence to what individuals claim as their identity, we can also acknowledge when they claim it falsely!
While, yes, we must give creedence to what individuals claim as their identity, we can also acknowledge when they claim it falsely!
Some scholars claim left-wing Christians are special pleading when they deny that fascist groups parading under the name of Jesus are truly Christian. That charge assumes an uncritical trust in self-description that serious analysis should, at a minimum, trouble.
The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping.
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I wish more of these scholars would actually examine the early Christian movements before making the judgement about who is doing the special pleading...
While, yes, we must give creedence to what individuals claim as their identity, we can also acknowledge when they claim it falsely!
While, yes, we must give creedence to what individuals claim as their identity, we can also acknowledge when they claim it falsely!
Reposted by Maddison Reddie-Clifford
She's very clearly trying to be the Marine Le Pen to Trump's Jean-Marie, and has made a smart bet on the utter credulity of a large swath of the pundit class.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is standing up to Trump on the Epstein files, but she's also urging Dana Bash to interview outspoken antisemite Nick Fuentes. She wants to push Trump aside for something even worse.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Apologizes for Her ‘Toxic Politics’
Greene’s comments come as she is embroiled in a public feud with Trump over his refusal to release the Epstein files.
time.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
She's very clearly trying to be the Marine Le Pen to Trump's Jean-Marie, and has made a smart bet on the utter credulity of a large swath of the pundit class.
Does anyone know of there are papers on the influence of merkavah on Catholic mysticism? Not wanting to have to learn another language just to find sources!
November 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Does anyone know of there are papers on the influence of merkavah on Catholic mysticism? Not wanting to have to learn another language just to find sources!
PhD formally submitted yesterday... time for nervous breakdown today!
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
PhD formally submitted yesterday... time for nervous breakdown today!
And another example of why the United States is the most terrifying entity on earth and a dangerous place of monsters to avoid.
y’all, just last night I quipped about the cumulative effects of exposure to content as a form of rhetorical manipulation, and I provided the example of JD Vance’s transformation toward Nazism over the last eight years
like, is that illegal speech for a college instructor now?
like, is that illegal speech for a college instructor now?
"The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the 'Make America Great Again' slogan as an example of white supremacy."
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
And another example of why the United States is the most terrifying entity on earth and a dangerous place of monsters to avoid.
The biggest thing I took from Karl Rahner on the Church was the importance of not trying to protect her from her history. Accept it, because what is true will always resonate, and grace will always overcome sin.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The biggest thing I took from Karl Rahner on the Church was the importance of not trying to protect her from her history. Accept it, because what is true will always resonate, and grace will always overcome sin.
In some good news, I found out yesterday that one of my thesis advisors is citing one of the core ideas of my phd thesis in an update of one of her synthesis textbooks, including a main body name drop. That has to count for more than a footnote surely!
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
In some good news, I found out yesterday that one of my thesis advisors is citing one of the core ideas of my phd thesis in an update of one of her synthesis textbooks, including a main body name drop. That has to count for more than a footnote surely!
Handed over a final draft of my phd thesis last night. Feeling just that little bit punch drunk from the release of seven years of stress...
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Handed over a final draft of my phd thesis last night. Feeling just that little bit punch drunk from the release of seven years of stress...
Mmm can one write a history of philosophical theologies without also writing a philosophical theology.
March 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Mmm can one write a history of philosophical theologies without also writing a philosophical theology.
Watching a mainline French news program discussing what a US invasion of Europe would do to the EU...
What a world...
What a world...
March 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Watching a mainline French news program discussing what a US invasion of Europe would do to the EU...
What a world...
What a world...
If it they were anyone but a Trump appointee they would be in jail right now...
Paraphrase of Pete Hegseth on fox news in 2016...
Paraphrase of Pete Hegseth on fox news in 2016...
March 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
If it they were anyone but a Trump appointee they would be in jail right now...
Paraphrase of Pete Hegseth on fox news in 2016...
Paraphrase of Pete Hegseth on fox news in 2016...
I am increasingly dubious that liberal idealism will hold and prevent the decline of the world's greatest super power into an aggressive beligerant.
I don't believe the civic religion of the USA will stop an illegal war of conquest.
I don't believe the civic religion of the USA will stop an illegal war of conquest.
March 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I am increasingly dubious that liberal idealism will hold and prevent the decline of the world's greatest super power into an aggressive beligerant.
I don't believe the civic religion of the USA will stop an illegal war of conquest.
I don't believe the civic religion of the USA will stop an illegal war of conquest.
Part of me thinks that people need to begin preparing themselves for a third world war with the USA as an enemy of the democracies.
You need to think the unthinkable to not be overcome by it.
You need to think the unthinkable to not be overcome by it.
March 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Part of me thinks that people need to begin preparing themselves for a third world war with the USA as an enemy of the democracies.
You need to think the unthinkable to not be overcome by it.
You need to think the unthinkable to not be overcome by it.
Now in the process of rewriting my thesis to remove duplicate references and stuff. It is actually painfully slow going...
March 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Now in the process of rewriting my thesis to remove duplicate references and stuff. It is actually painfully slow going...
So spent my weekend looking into non us based hosting for my research storage. I think I no longer trust any US based hosting solution.
March 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
So spent my weekend looking into non us based hosting for my research storage. I think I no longer trust any US based hosting solution.
Any time someone uses the phrase deep state unironically they reveal themselves a moron.
Deep-State is just a modern synonym for International Jewry...
Deep-State is just a modern synonym for International Jewry...
February 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Any time someone uses the phrase deep state unironically they reveal themselves a moron.
Deep-State is just a modern synonym for International Jewry...
Deep-State is just a modern synonym for International Jewry...
There is no small part of my soul that hopes that the next Trump presidency proves to be The West's purgative great enema.
Sadly I think many are going to discover they like wallowing in the mud...
Sadly I think many are going to discover they like wallowing in the mud...
November 19, 2024 at 5:25 AM
There is no small part of my soul that hopes that the next Trump presidency proves to be The West's purgative great enema.
Sadly I think many are going to discover they like wallowing in the mud...
Sadly I think many are going to discover they like wallowing in the mud...
"Evil gravity" is a thing in some theologies..
July 8, 2024 at 1:35 AM
"Evil gravity" is a thing in some theologies..