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Articles by Brian Welter

About Brian Welter
Brian Welter has studied education, history, and theology and writes on these subjects for many publications including Studia gilsoniana. He teaches English in Taiwan.
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Without real men, civilization dies: A review of No Apologies

July 24, 2022 Brian Welter 5

Professor, translator, and writer Anthony Esolen takes on a multitude of lies about men and patriarchy in this perceptive and sensible book. Esolen bases his argument on the traditional wisdom of the ages, particularly from […]

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Seven dialogues on the liberal arts and the classical learning tradition

May 8, 2022 Brian Welter 2

Does the past offer any solutions to the contemporary crisis in education? Is there really such a sharp break in educational practices between the past and the present? And what is the role of the […]

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Biography explores Stein’s conversion, intelligence, embrace of the Cross

February 15, 2022 Brian Welter 6

Edith Stein (1891-1942) was a Jewish convert to Catholicism, a Thomist-phenomenologist scholar, and a victim of Nazism. Her life has inspired countless Christians. Hilda Graef, herself a Jewish convert to Catholicism, shows how Stein exemplified […]

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An often deep, sometimes flawed, defense of traditional Western culture

December 14, 2021 Brian Welter 0

Reading Roger Scruton (1944-2020) leaves one with the feeling that we are too often underserved by less erudite and more superficial writers nowadays. The collection of essays in Confessions of a Heretic provides learned, robust, […]

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The living tradition of Catholic education: A history with a future

November 10, 2021 Brian Welter 4

In recent decades, Catholic education has become less and less distinct from mainstream schooling. Catholic educational leaders often talk of the need to educate the whole person and to instill “values” in pupils, notwithstanding the […]

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The place and purpose of symbols in the Church through the centuries

November 6, 2021 Brian Welter 3

In this invaluable reprint of a book from 1936, Van Treeck and Croft focus more on basic artistic features of typical examples of symbols. They connect the various examples to theology and Church history, which […]

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Metaphysics for a secular, politicized culture

October 3, 2021 Brian Welter 9

South African writer Wynand De Beer’s analysis in Reality: From Metaphysics to Metapolitics of Western metaphysics from the Greeks to the Catholic and Orthodox continuation of this tradition has much to offer Catholics who find […]

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Book provides insight into Scriptural basis, goals, practical aspects of exorcism

September 3, 2021 Brian Welter 7

Exorcism: The Battle against Satan and his Demons, by experienced exorcist Fr. Vincent Lampert, provides pastoral, theological, spiritual, and Biblical insights into the nature and purpose of the rite of exorcism. Fr. Lampert bases the […]

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A paradoxical and Catholic discussion of faith and reason

August 11, 2021 Brian Welter 7

Theology: Mythos or Logos consists of a series of letters between two Catholic thinkers with distinctive stances on the reason- or faith-based approaches to the faith. These stances are somewhat artificial given the Church’s long […]

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New collection reflects on the theology behind our concept of the cosmos

February 23, 2021 Brian Welter 2

In the modern imagination, the difference between a complex machine such as a computer and a living thing such as a dog … is merely one of degree”, writes Michael H. Storck in his chapter, […]

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