Category: Reading with Tradition

Reflections on essays and books that are classics (from the good to the greats); also newer books (reviews, thoughts, etc.)

The Incarnation and Mary

The following is excerpted with slight adaptations from my essay “Ancilla Domini et Ancilla Theologiae: Mary and Philosophy,” a translator’s essay in Fr. Hugon’s Mary, Full of Grace (235–78; here 235–46). It proposes that Mary is, as it were, the imagination of God in which the Word first comes to be Incarnately; she is like … Continue reading The Incarnation and Mary →

New book reviews

Over at Thomistica, I review two books of interest to philosophers and Thomists. The first is Fr. Ezra Sullivan’s Habits and Holiness. The second is Resnick and Kitchell’s biography of St. Albert the Great.