Tag Archives: Catholicism
Saints, Lovers and Writers
Saints, Lovers and Writers Girls and women tend to think that their work is an addendum, an add-on, to the main event: life. I have published books and articles, given papers internationally, fought for the right to teach philosophy without … Continue reading
Posted in Absurdism, Action, Afterlife, Art, Art of Living, Autonomy, beauty, Bible, Biblical God, Childhood, Christianity, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Faith, Femininity, Feminism, Films, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Heroes, hidden God, History, history of ideas, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Immortality, Institutional Power, Jews, Judaism, Law, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Male Power, Martyrdom, Masculinity, master, Medieval, Memoir, memory, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, motherhood, Mysticism, nineteenth-century, non-violence, Past and Future, Peace, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Movements, politics of ideas, Power, presence, promissory notes, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Roles, Romance, Romantic Love, self-deception, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Theism, Theology, Time, twenty-first century, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", academic press, beautiful movie stars, biblical couples, biblical women, book contract, braving ridicule, canonization, Catholic saints, Catholicism, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover", divine-human partnership, editors, Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls", eros, fight for truth, Gandhi, great lover, greatness in women, heroes of the spirit, heroic wives, Hindu, Hinduism, holiness, human and divine eros, inauthenticity, Ingrid Bergman's Joan of Arc, intellectual courage, intercession, intimacy, Jennifer Jones's Song of Bernadette, lapsed Catholics, Lord Byron's "Don Juan", man behind the curtain, marginalization, mental fight, miracle cure, miracles at Lourdes, peasant girls, phoniness, pilgrimage, pilgrims, prayer, purity, Rachel in Genesis, religion of Israel, reprinting, ridicule, Saint Bernadette Soubirous, sainthood, saints, Sarah in Genesis, seeing a vision, self-sacrifice, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, the lame the halt and the blind, The Wizard of Oz, truthfulness, young girls
Leave a comment
“Faith”
“Faith” What is the place of faith in a woman’s life or a man’s? In what should we have faith and when is it best to withhold it? As a small child, it’s been reported that I was standing on … Continue reading
Posted in Academe, Culture, Desire, Faith, Femininity, history of ideas, life and death struggle, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, The Examined Life
Tagged Ammon Hennacy, blind-faith, Catholic Worker, Catholic Worker Movement, Catholicism, Cherokee, Dorothy Day, Faith, French, Ghandi, God, Isle St. Louis, Jew, Jewish, Lower Manhattan, Midstream Magazine, North Carolina, pacifism, pacifist, pogrom, Quaker, reservation, Russia, unseen, W. H. Auden
Leave a comment