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The Creature Before God

Trilogy

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Ontological Vertigo PDF · Read PDF · Read Part I: creation, present dependence upon God, and the natural-theological judgment that God loves.
The Due Return PDF · Read PDF · Read Part II: worship as the creature's due return—sacrifice, sacrament, moral life, mercy, grace, and hope.
At the End of Every Why PDF · Read PDF · Read Part III: charity and friendship with God amid prayer, dryness, suffering, Eucharistic desire, and love of neighbor.

Companion Essays

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Against the Instrumentalists PDF · Read PDF · Read Why measurement alone cannot settle what is real or rationally knowable.
In Defense of the Particular PDF · Read PDF · Read How God's universal causality acts through concrete election, Incarnation, providence, sacraments, and neighbor.

The Four Last Things

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The Four Last Things: The Hour That Cannot Be Delegated PDF · Read PDF · Read Death: the rupture no one escapes, Christian preparation, grief, and hope in the resurrection.
The Four Last Things: The Truth of a Life PDF · Read PDF · Read Judgment: particular and final judgment, mercy, justice, responsibility, and the disclosure of every life in Christ.
The Four Last Things: The Refusal That Becomes Final PDF · Read PDF · Read Hell: definitive self-exclusion from communion with God, the gravity of freedom, and the limits of what may be claimed about any person.
The Four Last Things: The End for Which We Were Made PDF · Read PDF · Read Heaven: the beatific vision, communion of saints, resurrection of the body, and the renewal of creation.

Sacraments, Virtue, and Spiritual Life

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The Seven Sacraments Treatise · At a Glance Patristic and Thomistic account of the sacraments, with a compact companion.
The Virtues PDF Theological, cardinal, intellectual, and allied virtues in Aristotelian, Augustinian, and Thomistic thought.
Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence PDF PDF · Read How confidence in providence differs from passivity, fatalism, presumption, and indifference to evil.

Doctrine and Authority

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How the Catholic Church Teaches PDF · Read Dogma, definitive doctrine, authentic teaching, discipline, theological opinion, their historical development, and the response proper to each.

Church, Liturgy, and Modern Controversies

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The Supper, the Cross, and the Mass PDF · Read Why the Last Supper and every Mass make Christ's one sacrifice sacramentally present without literal travel through time.
Two Missals, One Sacrifice PDF PDF · Read Comparison of the 1962 and postconciliar Roman Missals, their shared sacrificial center, and their differences.
Council, Missal, and Crisis PDF PDF · Read Vatican I and II, Missal reform, institutional contraction, belief, and the SSPX rupture.
Freemasonry and the Catholic Church PDF PDF · Read Masonic principles, Catholic teaching, spiritual claims, and current Church discipline.