Seminarian Essays


These are some different essays written by seminarians.  These essays are on several different topics.  They are theological and philosophical, dealing with an array of topics.  Please respect the rights of each writer. 


Empty Evil and the Positive Devil in Augustinian Philosophy  By Peter Finney III

Facing the Other: Levinas’s Ethics of Love  By Peter Finney III

Does Evolution Rule Out God’s Existence: Opposing Views  By Dan Good

Thomas Aquinas’ Notion of Free Will  By Dan Good

The Behaving Subject: From Robot to Person By Peter Finney III

John Henry Newman's Grammar of Assent By Br. Silas Henderson OSB

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics And Benedictine Monasticism: A Comparison of  Systems and Values  By Br. Silas Henderson OSB

A Presentation on the Role of Pride In the Systems of Plotinus and Augustine With a Response from Christian Monasticism By Br. Silas Henderson OSB

Under the Influence of Plotinus: Augustine’s Ascent of the Soul By Kyle Sanders

On Knowledge:  Augustine and Aquinas By Kyle Sanders

Archbishop John Hughes The Irish Catholic Who Helped Shape American Catholicism By Kyle Sanders

Baptizing a Greek Myth: Till We Have Faces  By Kyle Sanders

Solidarity By Dan Good

The Sign of Jonah By Andre Melancon

The Black Christ of Esquipulas: A Brief Look into El Cristo Negro By Scott Thomas

A Presentation on the Development Of the Sanctoral Cycle of the Liturgical Year By Br. Silas Henderson OSB

The Civil Constitution on the Clergy and The Martyrs of September  By Br. Silas Henderson OSB

Saint Elizabeth Seton: Wife, Mother, and Foundress By Br. Silas Henderson OSB

Good Friday as the Day of Atonement with Jesus Christ, Our High Priest  By Dan Good

The Procession of the Holy Spirit   By Peter Finney III

On the Necessity of Mary’s Immaculate Conception  By Brent Maher

 

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Social Justice Encyclicals


For a theology class had by one Fr. Charles of the OSB persuasion we had to write an encyclical as if we were pope responding to Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged our area.

Dan Good

Peter Finney III

Scott Thomas

Brent Maher

Andre Melancon