21Apr Secularized Messianism April 21, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog In the middle of the last century, Hans Urs von Balthasar worried that the West was “preparing highly developed civilizations...Read more
11Apr A Glimpse of Paradise… April 11, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog One of the most glorious sights in the world is a wide, beaming smile of someone who has a missing...Read more
26Mar The deritualization of social life … March 26, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog “The deritualization of social life invites struggles for power. Far from being an enlightening process, the destruction of ritual in...Read more
26Mar Faith has set its mark on history… March 26, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog Hans Urs von Balthasar Hans Urs von Balthasar, quoting Reinhold Schneider: “Faith has set it mark on history to such...Read more
21Mar No Worse Fate March 21, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog “Surely no worse fate can befall a people, and thereby the world, than the rule of a man who is...Read more
12Mar The Frankfort School and Critical Theory . . . March 12, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog Max Horkheimer was a German philosopher and sociologist and leader of the famous Frankfort School where Critical Theory was born....Read more
10Mar Self-proclaimed eccentrics … March 10, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog The Polish philosopher Ryszard Legutko points out an irony that can hardly be lost on anyone seriously observing contemporary affairs:...Read more
10Mar Social Agitation and Spiritual Upheavals March 10, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog Writing of the cultural and spiritual situation at the beginning of the last century, Henri de Lubac has aptly captured...Read more
09Mar When earthly certainty sees decline and doom as inevitable … March 9, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog “ becomes most visible where the secular power begins to dwindle, where earthly certainty sees decline and doom as inevitable....Read more
09Mar The Theodrama March 9, 2022 Gil Bailie Blog “The Holy Spirit reveals to each age that side of the divine truth which has been specially reserved for it,...Read more
Secularized Messianism
A Glimpse of Paradise…
The deritualization of social life …
Faith has set its mark on history…
No Worse Fate
The Frankfort School and Critical Theory . . .
Self-proclaimed eccentrics …
Social Agitation and Spiritual Upheavals
When earthly certainty sees decline and doom as inevitable …
The Theodrama