Review of Dan Edelstein’s On the Spirit of Rights: Of Rights and Rites

by Andrew Kuiper This is the third installment of Kuiper’s review: part 1 and part 2. For somewhat understandable reasons, the French Revolution has acquired a reputation for inaugurating an era of aggressive, and aggressively secular, revolutionary politics. Many religious conservatives, particularly Roman Catholics fond of Donoso Cortes, Joseph de Maistre, and the counter-revolutionary tradition… Read More Review of Dan Edelstein’s On the Spirit of Rights: Of Rights and Rites

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 Andrew KuiperLeave a comment

Review of Dan Edelstein’s On the Spirit of Rights (part 2)

by Andrew Kuiper Any genealogy of modernity that fails to explain the development and dominance of political economy risks irrelevance. Economics is one of the master-discourses of our age and evaluating how and why it emerged has always been a site of bitter contestation. The framing of the narrative already includes certain models of human… Read More Review of Dan Edelstein’s On the Spirit of Rights (part 2)

August 6, 2021August 7, 2021 Andrew Kuiper1 Comment

Review of Dan Edelstein’s On the Spirit of Rights: Introduction

by Andrew Kuiper Editorial Note: In the following series, Andrew Kuiper continues his own reflection on the roots of concepts like religious liberty that we generally associate with the modern world. This series also develops some earlier posts at the Regensburg Forum on how careful interconfessional inquiry about early modern theology and about the Augustinian… Read More Review of Dan Edelstein’s On the Spirit of Rights: Introduction

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 Andrew KuiperLeave a comment

Ramon Llull and Religious Dialogue

by Andrew Kuiper 1. Introduction Wilken nowhere claims to give an exhaustive historical survey of figures relevant to his subject. Still, after discussions of Alcuin and Gregory VII, the book suffers a discomfiting abridgement. Peter Olivi and Bartolomé de Las Casas both receive a brief treatment, but for the most part the reader is, at… Read More Ramon Llull and Religious Dialogue

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Andrew KuiperLeave a comment

The Beautiful Madness of Vladimir Soloviev: Russian Wisdom and Dignitatis Humanae

by Andrew Kuiper ‘Bella idea, ma fuor d’un miracolo, é cosa impossible’ (a beautiful idea but, short of a miracle, impossible to carry out). This was the response of Pope Leo XIII to Vladimir Soloviev’s (1853-1900) program for ecclesial-political unity between East and West. It is certainly an understandable skepticism given the sprawling scope of… Read More The Beautiful Madness of Vladimir Soloviev: Russian Wisdom and Dignitatis Humanae

October 19, 2017October 19, 2017 Andrew KuiperLeave a comment

The Liturgical Significance of Pastor John

We are pleased to feature a guest post by Andrew Kuiper Mainly poetry was chosen because the emotions of a young man can run deep in the river of poetry. Clyde Kilby was a giant in the lit department in those days, and his book Poetry and Life was lived in front of us in class.… Read More The Liturgical Significance of Pastor John

July 4, 2016July 25, 2016 Andrew KuiperLeave a comment

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History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Augustinian Tradition

Author: Andrew Kuiper