Genealogies of Modernity

Exploring stories of how we became modern. Asking what it means to be modern. Wondering about other possible modernities.

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“[W[hat we do need to have is a sense of political authority that includes a metaphysical-theological dimension, whatever form that might take in the future.”
Check out part II of Lucas Carroll's interview with D. C. Schindler
https://t.co/JteIK77fPE

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"The most compelling alternative to the twin perils of genealogy and fideism, radical immanence and radical transcendence, involves a hermeneutics of tradition."

In today's "From the Archives," Thomas Pfau develops a Christian Hermeneutics of Tradition
https://t.co/8xLqeZDhw5

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"[A]uthority is concerned with a sphere of existence that far exceeds the merely pragmatic order. It includes the order of thought, and, ultimately, the order of being simply."
Lucas Carroll interviews D. C. Schindler on the crisis of authority
https://t.co/2U0ktOrHmk

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"War, revenge, and obsession are driven by the perception of control and hopes for victory and utopia, but ultimately result in being drawn into one’s own destruction."
In today's "From the Archives," Sarah MacMillen delves into the Golem myth
https://t.co/7WtPTmDmqL

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"With Eliot as an example…perhaps we might find that sacramental theology and the metaphysical worldview, more than authority, was what Eliot and others were seeking."
Jayme Stayer on T. S Eliot’s embrace of orthodoxy
https://t.co/TrBBb7Ur6Z

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"When Unitarianism and Transcendentalism were no longer understood as brash rejections of institutional orthodoxy, but as the exact opposite…a young and rebellious T. S. Eliot would cast a pox on both their houses with four poems written in the spring of 1915."

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Check out our latest, Jayme Stayer on Liberal Protestantism in T. S. Eliot’s early poems
https://t.co/CLRrEY9aWV

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Check out our August 2026 "Pathways." We remember the life of Wendell Berry, who passed away on August 31, in addition to pointing to some of the best writing of the last month. References to work by: @samuelmoyn, @HeldShai, and @SmDrssr, among others.
https://t.co/IT93Dh6U6H

[Arthur Aghajanian @ArtAghajanian]

@GenofMod @cnresearch Great forum and proud to have been part of it. Go GenMod!

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"Is not reversion to the faith of one’s childhood just as religiously and sociologically significant as a conversion?"
Jayme Stayer on modernist conversions and reversions
https://t.co/aTtc9VqGRk

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We've got another virtual reading group on tap! We're continuing to explore Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm’s work (@Ghost_Image_ ), this time his book "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory."
Details in the link!
https://t.co/Lk5wFmfVTh

[philip gonzales @philipgonzales8]

Dear friends: Prologue to a Metaphysics of Patmos: Towards an Apocalyptic Metaphysics of Trinitarian Response is now available to purchase on Amazon! @ChurchLifeND @cosmostheinlost @NTOntologies @TRIERTIUM @GenofMod @johnmilbank3 @AimeTim @chaven
https://t.co/2DLPn1NzV6

[〰Stefan Gigacz @cnresearch]

Pt II of my article on Peter Maurin & the Sillon, appropriately published on the anniversary of Pius X's letter to the French bishops that led to the end of the Sillon but also providentially opened the path to the Catholic Worker, Young Christian Workers and so many initiatives.

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Thanks to all those who engaged with and participated in our forum on the Catholic Worker and Personalism
https://t.co/458ZnfYzap
Special thanks to our authors: @cnresearch, @ArtAghajanian, Marty Tomszak, and Renée Roden and James Murphy

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Here's the final piece for our forum on Personalism and the Catholic Worker, the second part of an essay by Stefan Gigacz (@cnresearch) on the formation of the Sillon Movement in France and its reverberations through 20th century Catholicism
https://t.co/mDOJTVXGAY

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"Scruton is an author who reminds us that there are deep currents of being human, thinking, being governed, and viewing reality which we in America have forgotten about."
This week's "From the Archives" is Julian Kwasniewski's review of "Against the Tide"
https://t.co/kPSiRK9lfE

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See our latest essay for our forum on Personalism and the Catholic Worker, by Stefan Gigacz (@cnresearch) on the formation of the Sillon Movement in France, Marc Sangnier, and Peter Maurin
https://t.co/19PCgwqga3

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You can find other work from the forum here: https://t.co/458ZnfYzap

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Check out our latest: Marty Tomszak on Maritain and sovereignty for our forum on Personalism and the Catholic Worker
https://t.co/dmx2iUHsTS

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"...the Personalists observed that political inscriptions of sovereignty often end up as examples of absolute power exercised without accountability. As such, there is no room for singular sovereignty within a philosophy centered on the well-being of persons."