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By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report, February 28, 2024

Carl E. Olson is editor of Catholic World Report and Ignatius Insight. He is the author of Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?, Will Catholics Be “Left Behind”?, co-editor/contributor to Called To Be the Children of God, co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax (Ignatius), and author of the “Catholicism” and “Priest Prophet King” Study Guides for Bishop Robert Barron/Word on Fire. …

“Too many of us are not being who we are by nature, not doing what we’re called to do by God,” says theologian and professor David Deane. “We’re living as if we’re subjects of a lord other than Jesus Christ.”

David Deane is Associate Professor of Theology at the Atlantic School of Theology (Halifax, Nova Scotia). He received his doctorate from Trinity College (University of Dublin) and has taught at Colorado State University. He is the author of Nietzsche and Theology: Nietzschean Thought in Christological Anthropology (Ashgate Publishing, 2007) and, with Sr. Nuala P. Kenny, Still Unhealed: Treating the Pathology in the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis (Novalis, 2019).

His new book, titled The Tyranny of the Banal (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2023) has been described as “exceptional” by John Milbank, “very valuable” by Stephen Bullivant, and a work that “should be on every seminarian’s moral theology reading list” by Tracey Rowland. …

Renewing the Moral Life While Renouncing the Tyranny of the Banal, by Carl E. Olson

How To Sidewalk Counsel Abortion-Minded Moms Without Going To Prison, by Lauren Muzyka

Contraception Regret at Red Lobster, by Kennedy Hall

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report, February 28, 2024

“Too many of us are not being who we are by nature, not doing what we’re called to do by God,” says theologian and professor David Deane. “We’re living as if we’re subjects of a lord other than Jesus Christ.”

His new book, titled The Tyranny of the Banal (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2023) has been described as “exceptional” by John Milbank, “very valuable” by Stephen Bullivant, and a work that “should be on every seminarian’s moral theology reading list” by Tracey Rowland. …

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