Alexander Pruss's Blog

It is widely taken in the Thomistic tradition that: Different people in heaven have the beatific vision to different degrees, correspondin...

Necessarily, every finite person is in the image and likeness of God. We should not make something in the image and likeness of God except...

It's hard to define naturalism. After all, even if there were souls and the like, naturalists could still treat them as natural phe...

Does gravely immoral activity by the clergy detract from the holiness of the Church as it is on earth, the Church militant? It su...

I came across this in St. John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul (Chapter 7): If any envy accompanies charity, it is a h...

I finished reading Leviticus. I had never read all of it before. It took a while to get any significant benefit from it, but fi...

Consider such pairs of terms as: good — holy impressive — awe-full immoral — sinful promise — vow puzzle — mystery fearsome — s...