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Winner of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom's 2018 essay competition.
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This paper considers how Ancient Greek philosophers, medieval theologians, classical liberals, an... more This paper considers how Ancient Greek philosophers, medieval theologians, classical liberals, and reactionaries have considered the topic of freedom of speech. It examines the arguments for suppressing and for allowing dangerous conversations and argues that the medieval disputation provided a privileged arena for free speech within a context of repression of speech perceived as being dangerous, suggesting a potential compatibility between unhindered and regulated discourse. The reactionary argument that freedom is only valuable within a context of certain undisputed values is considered, as are the contemporary arguments leveled against classical liberals like Rousseau, Locke, and Mill. In connection with the disputation, a Kantian case for academic freedom within the context of social speech regulation is considered.
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This paper considers the theological and philosophical basis for private property (and the ethics... more This paper considers the theological and philosophical basis for private property (and the ethics of why and how it should exist and be used) in Scripture, Greek philosophy, medieval theology, and the thought of John Locke. Locke is specifically argued to be more of a Neo-medieval thinker than the modern figure he is usually portrayed as.
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This paper considers how urban design can embody a philosophy, and specifically an ethical philos... more This paper considers how urban design can embody a philosophy, and specifically an ethical philosophy, by considering the Biblical and medieval precedents for city design and more contemporary examples of moral principles at work in architecture and urban design (such as Confucian senior care in Asian city design). Ethics of care as a contemporary and feminist form of Aristotelian virtue ethics are specifically considered as a guide for urban design.
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Religion & Spirituality, Listening to the Right Voices, Mar 11, 2019
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With a strain on earth's natural reserve on metals immanent and the dense metallic conten... more With a strain on earth's natural reserve on metals immanent and the dense metallic content of meteorites, a logical next step is to begin in-situ asteroid mining as a new source of metal. This is not an outrageous or even novel idea, since meteoritic metals have been used to fashion tools, cosmetics, and weapons since ancient Egypt; examples of this are chronicled herein.
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Antarctic Institute of Canada, Aug 1, 2015
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An analysis of the theological picture painted by the Bhagavad Gita and a comparison of it to ort... more An analysis of the theological picture painted by the Bhagavad Gita and a comparison of it to orthodox Christian theology.
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A comparison of Islam's view of (for example) human nature to orthodox Christianity's.
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The Canadian Journal for Scholarship and the Christian Faith, 2021
Understanding the thought of George Parkin Grant (1918-1988) from an orthodox Christian (Roman Ca... more Understanding the thought of George Parkin Grant (1918-1988) from an orthodox Christian (Roman Catholic) perspective.
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How the Reformation's understanding of *simul iustus et peccator* can be interpreted ecclesiologi... more How the Reformation's understanding of *simul iustus et peccator* can be interpreted ecclesiologically rather than soteriologically to ground the objective holiness of the Church in the "active obedience of Christ", a project begun by Hans Urs Von Balthasar.
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Since the 2002 exposure of the extent of the sex abuse cover-up by elements within the Catholic C... more Since the 2002 exposure of the extent of the sex abuse cover-up by elements within the Catholic Church, Catholics must come to a renewed appreciation of Augustine’s refutation of the Donatists and defence of the principle that Christ’s merits make the Church’s Sacraments efficacious, not those of her ministers. Luther anticipated this in his own thought on the co-existence of Christ’s holiness and the subject’s personal sinfulness within the believer’s individual soul, but less well known is how he “institutionalized” this principle to apply to the public ministers of Word and Sacrament operating within the liturgical space of the Church. For Luther, this does not have to do with an indelible sacramental character imprinted on the priest’s soul, but rather on the minister’s ecclesial situation, for which reason he continued to value and defend his own Roman Catholic ordination, even in the face of rampant “Babylonian” corruption within the clergy. This paper will analyze the history of Roman Catholicism’s interaction with Luther’s theology of ministry, from Luther’s own experience saying the Catholic Mass to the 20th century Catholic theologians whose re-assessment of Reformation theology helped shape Vatican II’s reform of the Mass, concluding with reflections on that teaching’s implications for Catholics and Christians generally trying to make sense of their mission within the world in light of the Church’s well-documented public failings.
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Notes on the records and folklore of a 1097 A.D. comet sighting.
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Winner of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom's 2018 essay competition.
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This paper considers how Ancient Greek philosophers, medieval theologians, classical liberals, an... more This paper considers how Ancient Greek philosophers, medieval theologians, classical liberals, and reactionaries have considered the topic of freedom of speech. It examines the arguments for suppressing and for allowing dangerous conversations and argues that the medieval disputation provided a privileged arena for free speech within a context of repression of speech perceived as being dangerous, suggesting a potential compatibility between unhindered and regulated discourse. The reactionary argument that freedom is only valuable within a context of certain undisputed values is considered, as are the contemporary arguments leveled against classical liberals like Rousseau, Locke, and Mill. In connection with the disputation, a Kantian case for academic freedom within the context of social speech regulation is considered.
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This paper considers the theological and philosophical basis for private property (and the ethics... more This paper considers the theological and philosophical basis for private property (and the ethics of why and how it should exist and be used) in Scripture, Greek philosophy, medieval theology, and the thought of John Locke. Locke is specifically argued to be more of a Neo-medieval thinker than the modern figure he is usually portrayed as.
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This paper considers how urban design can embody a philosophy, and specifically an ethical philos... more This paper considers how urban design can embody a philosophy, and specifically an ethical philosophy, by considering the Biblical and medieval precedents for city design and more contemporary examples of moral principles at work in architecture and urban design (such as Confucian senior care in Asian city design). Ethics of care as a contemporary and feminist form of Aristotelian virtue ethics are specifically considered as a guide for urban design.
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Religion & Spirituality, Listening to the Right Voices, Mar 11, 2019
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aio, May 1, 2016
With a strain on earth's natural reserve on metals immanent and the dense metallic conten... more With a strain on earth's natural reserve on metals immanent and the dense metallic content of meteorites, a logical next step is to begin in-situ asteroid mining as a new source of metal. This is not an outrageous or even novel idea, since meteoritic metals have been used to fashion tools, cosmetics, and weapons since ancient Egypt; examples of this are chronicled herein.
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Antarctic Institute of Canada, Aug 1, 2015
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An analysis of the theological picture painted by the Bhagavad Gita and a comparison of it to ort... more An analysis of the theological picture painted by the Bhagavad Gita and a comparison of it to orthodox Christian theology.
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A comparison of Islam's view of (for example) human nature to orthodox Christianity's.
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The Canadian Journal for Scholarship and the Christian Faith, 2021
Understanding the thought of George Parkin Grant (1918-1988) from an orthodox Christian (Roman Ca... more Understanding the thought of George Parkin Grant (1918-1988) from an orthodox Christian (Roman Catholic) perspective.
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How the Reformation's understanding of *simul iustus et peccator* can be interpreted ecclesiologi... more How the Reformation's understanding of *simul iustus et peccator* can be interpreted ecclesiologically rather than soteriologically to ground the objective holiness of the Church in the "active obedience of Christ", a project begun by Hans Urs Von Balthasar.
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Since the 2002 exposure of the extent of the sex abuse cover-up by elements within the Catholic C... more Since the 2002 exposure of the extent of the sex abuse cover-up by elements within the Catholic Church, Catholics must come to a renewed appreciation of Augustine’s refutation of the Donatists and defence of the principle that Christ’s merits make the Church’s Sacraments efficacious, not those of her ministers. Luther anticipated this in his own thought on the co-existence of Christ’s holiness and the subject’s personal sinfulness within the believer’s individual soul, but less well known is how he “institutionalized” this principle to apply to the public ministers of Word and Sacrament operating within the liturgical space of the Church. For Luther, this does not have to do with an indelible sacramental character imprinted on the priest’s soul, but rather on the minister’s ecclesial situation, for which reason he continued to value and defend his own Roman Catholic ordination, even in the face of rampant “Babylonian” corruption within the clergy. This paper will analyze the history of Roman Catholicism’s interaction with Luther’s theology of ministry, from Luther’s own experience saying the Catholic Mass to the 20th century Catholic theologians whose re-assessment of Reformation theology helped shape Vatican II’s reform of the Mass, concluding with reflections on that teaching’s implications for Catholics and Christians generally trying to make sense of their mission within the world in light of the Church’s well-documented public failings.
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A letter to the editor of the Sherwood Park News making a case for criminalizing "private" suicid... more A letter to the editor of the Sherwood Park News making a case for criminalizing "private" suicide using the Supreme Court's reasoning for legalizing physician-assisted suicide,
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Golden Meteorite Press, 2018
Spitting Toward the West, Brett Fawcett, a convert to Catholicism whose mind operates a certain w... more Spitting Toward the West, Brett Fawcett, a convert to Catholicism whose mind operates a certain way because of Asperger’s Syndrome, describes how the Church’s calendar and practices re-calibrate us to to see and feel the reality of Christ in all things and how this becomes a standard of morality in holiness in our lives.
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