The next edition of the Sedes Sapientiae Symposium is on Mary and the philosophy of economics. It takes place at the Irish college in Leuven, December 12th-13th. Registration is open until December 5th.
Mary and the philosophy of economics
CMS research seminar: Did God create the world for Mary?
The Centre for Marian Studies has just announced its 2025-2026 series of research seminars. I’ll be presenting on November 12th 2025 on the topic: Did God create the world for Mary? By the way, the October seminar (also ;-)) looks fascinating: Wisdom’s Apex: Mary’s Role in the American Evolution Controversy.
On the Economics of the Eucharist: the time and value of Calvary as a missing piece of Max Weber’s theory
Chapter published in Religion and Economy. Historical, contemporary and philosophical perspectives. Edited by Erik Sporon Fiedler, published by Edizioni Quasar in the Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementum, 60, p. 133-145.
On the metaphysics and economics of the Trinity
Upcoming presentation at the ETF/EUR conference on ‘Human nature and community‘.
Call for papers for edited volume on Mary and political philosophy
After the Sedes Sapientiae Symposium on Mary and political philosophy, there is now a call for papers for an edited volume on that topic.
Call for papers: Dialogue between Economics and Theology on Human Nature & Community
Just spreading the word about this wonderful upcoming conference:
On June 19 and 20, 2025, the Erasmus Economics & Theology Institute (EETI, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands), the Institute of Leadership and Social Ethics (ILSE, ETF Leuven, Belgium) and the Economic Humanist Group will organize an international academic conference addressing this theme, focusing on the dialogue between economics and Christian theology. The conference will provide an opportunity to engage with and learn from a diverse group of global leading thinkers in these fields. Scholars are invited to submit an abstract for a paper. The full Call for Papers can be found through the link below.
Lees verder “Call for papers: Dialogue between Economics and Theology on Human Nature & Community”Registration open for the 2024 Sedes Sapientiae Symposium
Registration is now open for the 2024 Sedes Sapientiae Symposium on Mary and political philosophy. It will take place on October 18-19, at the Keizersberg abbey in Leuven, Belgium.
Registration deadline is October 10th.
Sur les fondements métaphysiques et les contours théologiques des sciences sociales : réalisme, nominalisme et création contingente
[On the metaphysical foundations and theological contours of the social sciences: realism, nominalism and contingent creation] Forthcoming in: Le réalisme en sciences sociales, ed. Olga Peniaz et Hélène Terrom, Les éditions du Cerf, Patrimoines.
Lees verder “Sur les fondements métaphysiques et les contours théologiques des sciences sociales : réalisme, nominalisme et création contingente”Personhood, sovereignty, Trinity
Upcoming lecture at the conference on the social ontology of sovereignty, March 14-16 2024, University of Navarra, Spain.
A Marian hermeneutic for Vatican II
Upcoming paper presentation for the 2024 Mariological Society of America Meeting, May 21-24, 2024, Washington.
Lees verder “A Marian hermeneutic for Vatican II”Synchronic progress in the understanding of doctrine: a marian perspective
Forthcoming chapter in: Progress in Theology, ed. G. van den Brink, R. Peels, B. Sollereder, Routledge.
Sedes Sapientiae Symposium
An upcoming Symposium that I’m organizing, occasioned by the 25th anniversary of Fides et Ratio, on September 16th 2023, in Leuven.
Towards a spousal metaphysics of the eucharist: persons, powers and Mary
Forthcoming in a special issue of Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift, (number 3) 2023.
Lees verder “Towards a spousal metaphysics of the eucharist: persons, powers and Mary”Economy of Francesco Academy
Coming academic year I’ll be a Researcher Fellow of the EoF Academy. It is an initiative to support research into and concrete practice of an alternative economic system, inspired by the Franciscan school.
Book: Fittingness and Environmental ethics: philosophical, theological and applied perspectives
Just out with Routledge, edited by Michael S. Northcott and Steven C. van den Heuvel and partly based on the presentations of this ETF-ILSE conference. It contains my ‘On the Ethics and Metaphysics of Fittingness, Affordances and Providence’.
Lees verder “Book: Fittingness and Environmental ethics: philosophical, theological and applied perspectives”Towards a metaphysics of usury: flourishing in time or eternity?
Upcoming presentation for the ILSE Conference “Economics and Human Flourishing: (What) Can Economists Learn from Theology?”
Lees verder “Towards a metaphysics of usury: flourishing in time or eternity?”They knew each other and she brought forth a son: Mary as the Immaculate Conception and Bride of the Holy Spirit
Talk at the International Conference ‘Passions and the Mystical: Between Affecting and Being Affected‘, jointly organized by the Mystical Theology Network (MTN) and the Titus Brandsma Institute associated Radboud University (TBI), in Nijmegen on 1-2 December, 2022.
Lees verder “They knew each other and she brought forth a son: Mary as the Immaculate Conception and Bride of the Holy Spirit”CFP: Conference “Economics and Human Flourishing: (What) Can Economists Learn from Theology?”
Just spreading the word (and call for papers) for an interesting upcoming conference: June 30-July 1 2023, ILSE, ETF Leuven.
An institutional metaphysics for the Trinity: family, unity and Mary
Published in TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, 6(2), 219–244. https://doi.org/10.14428/thl.v6i2.65613
On the metaphysics of usury
Presentation for the online colloquium ‘Time, money and God‘, July 8, 2022.
Weber, time and the economics of the eucharist
Upcoming presentation for the 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion: God, Time and Change, September 3-5, 2022, Oxford, UK.
Lees verder “Weber, time and the economics of the eucharist”Philosophizing in Mary: the test case of Anselm’s argument
(Image © Bradi Barth)
Upcoming presentation for the hybrid conference on Christian philosophy and its challenges, Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow (Poland), September 2022.
Lees verder “Philosophizing in Mary: the test case of Anselm’s argument”A spousal metaphysics of the eucharist: persons, powers and Mary
Upcoming presentation for the annual conference of the European Academy of Religion, Bologna, June 20-23, in the panel on a eucharistic metaphysics.
Lees verder “A spousal metaphysics of the eucharist: persons, powers and Mary”Time, Money and God: Antwerp Summer University
Upcoming Summer University at the University of Antwerp, July 4-8, 2022, on the ethical, metaphysical and religious aspects of the usury debate in relationship to sustainable finance.
Lees verder “Time, Money and God: Antwerp Summer University”The future of Christian thinking
Just spreading the word about an interesting upcoming conference in Maynooth, Ireland.
Truth, contingency and revelation: some Scotistic considerations on the possibility of progress in theology
Presentation for the upcoming Winter Seminar on Progress in Theology, January 27-28-9 2022, at the Abraham Kuyper Center of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Lees verder “Truth, contingency and revelation: some Scotistic considerations on the possibility of progress in theology”Five ways to the one argument? Revisiting Thomas and Anselm on demonstrating God
Presentation for the upcoming Eleventh International Thomistic Congress, Sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Thomistic Institute Angelicum, 19-24 September 2022 in Rome.
Lees verder “Five ways to the one argument? Revisiting Thomas and Anselm on demonstrating God”Realism, nominalism and contingent creation: on the metaphysical foundations and theological contours of the social sciences
Guest lecture for a colloquium at the Université d’Angers and the Université Catholique de l’Ouest
On the Ethics and Metaphysics of Fittingness, Affordances and Providence
Forthcoming in Fittingness and Environmental Ethics (ed. C. Tulp and M. Northcott)
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