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Deus Est or Deus ex Machina?: How René Descartes Rescued Anselm’s Ontological Argument From Thomas’s Critique

Nathan Johnson shows how Anselm’s ontological argument finds an unlikely ally in Rene Descartes

What if the point of “Paradise Lost” was not what Milton thought of Satan, but what he thought of himself?

Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World...

by Brad Littlejohn | Aug 30, 2021

Over the past eighteen months, I have been...

by Christopher Brown | Aug 12, 2021

Since the beginning of history, people have used...

by John Ahern | Jul 7, 2021

What can you expect from the "Quartet for the...

by E.J. Hutchinson | Nov 17, 2025

Once more on The Moviegoer: After Binx's...

by E.J. Hutchinson | Nov 12, 2025

In Book 12 of Vergil's Aeneid, a couple of...

by E.J. Hutchinson | Nov 10, 2025

For now, a sketch. Walker Percy's The Moviegoer...

by Michael Riggins | Nov 2, 2025

Five prayers from our forthcoming volume Sacred...

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