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Articles by Timothy J. Gordon

About Timothy J. Gordon
Timothy J. Gordon studied philosophy in Pontifical graduate universities in Europe, taught it at Southern Californian community colleges, and then went on to law school. He holds degrees in literature, history, philosophy, and law. Currently, he resides in central California with his wife and five children, where he writes and teaches philosophy and theology. He is the author of Catholic Republic: Why America Will Perish without Rome (Sophia Institute Press, 2019).
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Stranger lessons from Stranger Things

July 3, 2019 Timothy J. Gordon 9

With the premiere of Stranger Things 3 upon us—the new season will be released tomorrow—there are plenty of good reasons why Catholics might not tune in. You already well know the foremost of these: “the […]

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Natural No Maas: The disintegration of the concept of all law in Luther

August 12, 2018 Timothy J. Gordon 20

Classical Protestantism is a voluntarist form of Christianity, such a radically different view of human and divine will that it must be differentiated from non-voluntarist […]

Essay

Martin Luther’s flawed understanding of natural law: A response to Dr. Korey D. Maas

April 4, 2018 Timothy J. Gordon 10

Voluntarism denies the Catholic teaching that logos constitutes—rather than delimits—God’s nature, and Luther was a volunarist. […]

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Natural law outside Catholicism? Regime-agnosticism and agnostic regimes

December 17, 2017 Timothy J. Gordon 11

The question at hand is: what do we make of America’s schizophrenic natural law pedigree, rejecting but needing Catholic ideas? (And John Locke, history’s most […]

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