Thought: Fordham University Quarterly

The logic of discovery, accepting the seriousness of ultimate questions, ends in faith with an answer which, for the Christian, is not a statement but a person.

In addition to the vast influence of science, American naturalism owes its origins in large part to a reaction against elements in traditional American religion.

Mutuality, the defining relationship of personal life, provides a meaningful context for unifying and clarifying three facets of personal existence: self-identity, rationality, and freedom.

On the whole, the Electoral College, with all its deficiencies, has served us well, providing leadership and decent representation. Therefore it should not be abolished.

In "Nostromo," Conrad is proffering an ontological comment on the universe's structural economy involving the motions and counter-motions of the human and natural orders of creation.

For Diderot, the man who discovers significant truths not through the experimental method but through global intuition is a genius, a kind of visionary poet.

Diderot's dream of a rapprochement between the fragments of reality, between existence and thought, and over the abyss between them, was essentially that of the poet.

The "quick wit" of integration is mankind's best hope for mastering and ordering the new electronic revolution threatening to drown us in a sea of information.

Authority is a moral power of the community in whose service it is exercised through constitutive consent for coordinating its functions and achieving its purpose.

The lively and colorful story of the important role played by a curioously neglected French journalist in the First Vatican Council (December 1869–July 1870).

The crisis of the contemporary world is also a crisis of professionalism, the inevitable growth of which has created new problems both international and domestic.

The eschaton, or the future of the Kingdom, profoundly affects the Christian stance in ethics, especially when applied to the complex problems of the modern world.

An introduction to one aspect of the work of a major contemporary theologian whose full contribution will perhaps only be recognized in a more irenic age.

Gandhi's vision for permanent and substantial change in society through nonviolence involves first the transformation of man himself through the creative building of human relationships.