Christianity

The Uses of Idolatry: A Review

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The Uses of Idolatry, by William T. Cavanaugh, deals with the economic and political maladaptations of our day due to idolatry. The transfer of religious zeal and reverence towards politics and material things is, of course, ground that has been covered differently in books as diverse as Eugene McCarraher’s The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, and my Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right. This book begins with the contributions of Max Weber and Charles Taylor, and Cavanaugh details how his argument differs from theirs.

Upcoming Maurin Academy Series with James Murphy on Tuesday, September 26, 2023

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Peter Maurin’s Easy Essays encourage Catholic Workers interested in constructing a new social order to read the personalist revolutionaries: Emmanuel Mounier and Jacques Maritain. These personalist and communitarian philosophers also inspired Fr. Jose Maria Arizmindi, the founder of Mondragon, the world’s largest industrial worker-owned cooperative. What can Mondragon illustrate about Peter Maurin’s program that Catholic … Read more

Communio Study Circle Announcement

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Just a reminder that our next Communio Study Circle will meet TOMORROW, July 15, at 4 p.m. US Central Time IN PERSON AND on Zoom. Our Kansas City-based folks will meet in person, and we will have the Zoom pulled up for our folks who will be Zoom-ing in from out of state.  This reading … Read more

Tonight: Political Philosophy monthly talk: Aquinas and the Market

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Laurie will be live on zoom tonight at 7 p.m. US Central Time to discuss a bit about Aquinas and natural law and then to focus on his views on property. She’ll compare his views on private property with the neoliberal view as exemplified by Milton Friedman. To that end, part of the session she’ll be reading a section from the draft of the book she’s currently writing. The chapter is “Ideological Strong-Arming” and she spends some time discussing how Friedman helped set up the conditions for what we now call “capitalist realism.”