This article focuses on the implications of modernity for human culpability and moral responsibility. Although the sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation is most often approached theologically and pastorally, this article is intended as an answer to Pope Benedict XVI's call to explore catechesis through new lenses by adopting a psychological therapeutic approach. As such, this article will examine how the rejection of religious ascription to God for defining and determining the good and re-ascribing it to humanity leads to a rupture (...) and the psychological conditions of anxiety, depression, and melancholia. The article will go on to argue for a Lacanian reading of Thomas Aquinas’ definition of the good and how the Thomistic understanding provides a more comprehensive approach to determining culpability and overcoming the associated fear which leads to anxiety, depression, and melancholia. (shrink)

This essay seeks to establish the relevance for contemporary aesthetic theory of Hegel's view of the relationship between art, religion, and philosophy. The way in which Hegel relates these three is shown to offer an aesthetic theory in conflict with, and superior to, both functionalist and naturalist approaches. The views of Arnold Berleaut and Robert Steeker are used as foils for the functionalism/naturalism part of the argument. Finally, the views of Benedetto Croce concerning the death of art and religion in (...) Hegel are shown tobe mistaken, clearing the way for asserting the relevance of He gel's ideas to contemporary aesthetic theory. (shrink)

This essay seeks to establish the relevance for contemporary aesthetic theory of Hegel's view of the relationship between art, religion, and philosophy. The way in which Hegel relates these three is shown to offer an aesthetic theory in conflict with, and superior to, both functionalist and naturalist approaches. The views of Arnold Berleaut and Robert Steeker are used as foils for the functionalism/naturalism part of the argument. Finally, the views of Benedetto Croce concerning the death of art and religion in (...) Hegel are shown tobe mistaken, clearing the way for asserting the relevance of He gel's ideas to contemporary aesthetic theory. (shrink)

The aim of this book is to take what is otherwise a clear and insightful analysis of the central structure of the Hegelian system and highlight its relevance to contemporary issues of sexuality and marriage, family and children. While the authors do present a strong, logically coherent, and well-argued position for the continued recognition of the meaningful contributions that Hegel’s work can make to these important and contentious issues, the persuasiveness of the first seven chapters of the book gives way (...) in the last four chapters to an anticlimactic series of weakly-supported assertions. (shrink)

The aim of this book is to take what is otherwise a clear and insightful analysis of the central structure of the Hegelian system and highlight its relevance to contemporary issues of sexuality and marriage, family and children. While the authors do present a strong, logically coherent, and well-argued position for the continued recognition of the meaningful contributions that Hegel’s work can make to these important and contentious issues, the persuasiveness of the first seven chapters of the book gives way (...) in the last four chapters to an anticlimactic series of weakly-supported assertions. (shrink)

The aim of this book is to take what is otherwise a clear and insightful analysis of the central structure of the Hegelian system and highlight its relevance to contemporary issues of sexuality and marriage, family and children. While the authors do present a strong, logically coherent, and well-argued position for the continued recognition of the meaningful contributions that Hegel’s work can make to these important and contentious issues, the persuasiveness of the first seven chapters of the book gives way (...) in the last four chapters to an anticlimactic series of weakly-supported assertions. (shrink)