Edward Feser, Author at Catholic Herald

Edward Feser

David Bentley Hart’s attack on Christian tradition fails to convince

July 10, 2020

That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation By David Bentley Hart Yale University Press, 222pp, £20/$26 Eastern Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart denies that hell is everlasting. He does not merely claim that we have grounds for hope for the salvation of all. Nor does he hold that the unsaved will be

A medieval cure for modern man’s unease

May 02, 2019

Curing Mad Truths by Rémi Brague University of Notre Dame press, 133pp, £25/$29 Rémi Brague argues that the modern project has failed, and that the source of the failure is a kind of heresy. To be sure, he does not himself use that word. But it is an apt label for what he describes. Modernity,

The new Catechism text on the death penalty will damage the Church

August 08, 2018

Yes, the revised wording is unclear. But it certainly seems to imply that previous popes led the faithful into grave error

The Pope’s remarks on capital punishment need to be clarified

October 15, 2017

No Pope can overturn the Church's teaching that the death penalty is legitimate. So Francis's comments were puzzling

Weigel’s Terrible Arguments

October 08, 2020

Prof. Edward Feser responds to George Weigel’s recent essay, “Truman’s Terrible Choice”, published September 30th of this year in First Things. In “Truman’s Terrible Choice”, George Weigel correctly observes that “it seems difficult, if not impossible, to vindicate Hiroshima and Nagasaki on classic just-war grounds without relativizing moral norms in the kind of ethical calculus John