Cyril O’Regan is the Catherine F. Huisking Chair in Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His latest book is the first installment of a multi-volume intellectual history of Gnosticism in modernity, The Anatomy of Misremembering, Volume 1: Hegel.

Below are O’Regan’s most recent articles published in Church Life Journal: A Journal of the McGrath Institute for Church Life:

• 97 Theses on Hegel and His Catholic Readers
• Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Beatuy of Forgetting
• John Banville and the Redemption of Art
• Christ in the ICU
• See his author page here for more from Cyril O’Regan.

IT BEGAN with an ending. We did not realize then how fortunate we were to see Johnny Cash one last time. His career was riding tailwinds then, and he sounded in full voice, but there were portents in the air. His own breath sometimes came up short. I did not know that August 10, 1997, at the Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Atlanta, would be the last time Johnny ever played my hometown. […]

Read the full essay here.