Dan Yingst

There is a distinction between a classic a work that is merely very good. The classic unfolds. It offers us a glimpse into the inexhaustible depths of Being. Concretely, every time you turn to the Iliad or Dante or Emma you find something new, and it is the exhilaration of that discovery, the sense of it unfolding within…

Scripture and Creation are the pre-eminent revelations of God, or rather the pre-eminent revelations that aren’t confined to a historical moment, i.e. the Incarnation and the various theophanies that have occurred throughout time.  Creation can thus be understood as a sort of book in its own right.  As such, there is a surface level of…

The death of the author is akin to the rejection of God’s immanent role in creation, of the nature of creation as a reflection of its Author. How can we say that it is not the hand of the creator that guides the work? Choosing our own interpretation without reference to the Creator is sin, placing…

Key to understanding the self is the recognition that we are mediating beings, interposed between two worlds, spiritual and material, infinite and temporal. Created as we are in imago Dei, we mirror the hypostatic union of apparent opposites. This union is the root of our despair but also the grounds of our greatness. The possibility…