Philip Porter
@philipgporter.bsky.social
Teaches theology at SLU-Madrid. Dogmatics, Patristics, and Death. Author of *Unnatural Death: Creation, Sin, and the Angelic Fall* (Fortress Press, 2025). Currently writing on Gregory the Great.
Read even more—if you end up teaching, you have many fewer hours per day for research. There’s absolutely nothing like the vast, unoccupied hours of the comps and dissertation phases. Truly the good old days.
February 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Read even more—if you end up teaching, you have many fewer hours per day for research. There’s absolutely nothing like the vast, unoccupied hours of the comps and dissertation phases. Truly the good old days.
Get ready to convert that anti-Americanism into self-hatred, my friend.
January 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Get ready to convert that anti-Americanism into self-hatred, my friend.
I like Coakley’s work, but I reread The New Asceticism as I was prepping and just didn’t think it would work well.
December 13, 2024 at 3:19 PM
I like Coakley’s work, but I reread The New Asceticism as I was prepping and just didn’t think it would work well.
If you enjoy this piece, let me also suggest something I wrote on the necessity of penance to heal the wounds of war.
War & Penance
As we reflect on the end of the war in Afghanistan, the Church’s penitential practices can help us examine our consciences, individually and collectively.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:55 PM
If you enjoy this piece, let me also suggest something I wrote on the necessity of penance to heal the wounds of war.
I would like a pair of less innovative shoes, I think.
November 26, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I would like a pair of less innovative shoes, I think.
"...in divine mercy alone should all rejoice, no one should presume on the basis of his own strength."
Gregory the Great, HEv, 38.16
Gregory the Great, HEv, 38.16
November 26, 2024 at 12:59 PM
"...in divine mercy alone should all rejoice, no one should presume on the basis of his own strength."
Gregory the Great, HEv, 38.16
Gregory the Great, HEv, 38.16
The zombie apocalypse truck we deserve.
November 23, 2024 at 7:00 PM
The zombie apocalypse truck we deserve.