Announcement of 2012 Online Conference

ShareThe Dead Philosophers Society is pleased to announce its 8th annual Online Conference. The theme of this year’s conference is The Church and the Common Good. The theme for conference papers this year has in mind the link Acts 2:44 makes between the individual and the community in which we all live:  “And all who [...]

Anthony St. Louis-Sanchez: Heidegger, Space, and Prospects for Theology

Share  Heidegger, Space, and Prospects for Theology   Philosophy and theology have always enjoyed a close and intimate relationship.  The Fathers of the Church called upon Platonic philosophy to help explain the things of God.  In the middle ages, scholastic theology was well served by appealing to Aristotelian philosophy.  However, philosophy has not always enriched [...]

Erik Christianson: A Limited Point of View: Kant and the Merely Pratical

ShareMembers and Friends of the Dead Philosophers Society, I am interested in cultivating dialogue between philosophy and theology, and this opportunity has allowed me to test the waters through examining Immanuel Kant.  While this piece is mainly informative, it seeks to aid the reader in reconsidering the interpretive tradition. Human finitude finds a decisive formulation [...]

Steve Schultz: Faith and Reason – Two Wings of the Human Spirit

ShareSteve Schultz is a master’s degree student in theology at Holy Apostles College and Seminary. He holds a BA in mathematics from the University of Portland and a MA in military history from the American Military University. Steve is a writer and researcher living in Southwest Florida. Faith and Reason: Two Wings of the Human [...]

Kinga Lipinska: Theology and Its Way of Knowing

ShareKinga Lipinska, MA candidate in Dogmatic Theology lives in Chicago.  She hopes to finish her Master’s in 2011 and pursue further studies in Sacred Theology and Philosophy with focus on theological method and Christian philosophy starting in 2012.    Theology and Its Way of Knowing Philosophy is always in search of meaning and theology has already found it. [...]

Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP: Dante’s Wings: The Limits of Faith and Reason in Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven

ShareDr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, MO. He graduated with an MA in Moral Philosophy from Holy Apostles in January, 2009, and is currently working toward an MA in Moral Theology from Holy  Apostles. A Lay Dominican, Sebastian lives in St. Louis with his wife, [...]

7th Annual DPS Conference

ShareWelcome Members and Friends! Conference time is upon us!  In  the coming days, we will publish all submitted essays on our website and you are all invited to visit and post comments.  The Conference is open to all members and you do not have to submit an essay to participate.    This year we are pleased [...]

Karol Wojtyla on Human Sexuality

ShareAuthor: David Kustra The human person figures prominently for both the utilitarian and for Pope John Paul II, but for different reasons. The utilitarian values a person insofar as the other person is a means to his own pleasure and delight, whereas Pope John Paul insists that we value the human person because man is [...]

It’s a Both/And, not an Either/Or: The Necessity of Metaphysics as both an Ontology and a Theology

ShareAuthor: Sebastian Mahfood It would seem that metaphysics would have to be either an ontology or a theology, but that it could not be both. An ontology is that which has everything as its subject matter, which properly studies being as being. A theology, on the other hand, is that which has God as its [...]

The Human Person in Triadic, Dyadic, and Monadic Psychologies

ShareAuthor: David Kustra Perhaps the first question the first man had asked was, “What is man?” This has been pondered time and again, and various solutions have been profferred. In the following, I would like to briefly outline three ways in which philosophers have approached this question. Triadic psychology (trichotomism) asserts that the human person [...]