Author
Glenn W. Olsen
Bibliography
Articles in Communio
18 Articles
The Role and Dignity of the Christian Soldier
Appears in Peace and Homo Viator · Fall-Winter 2018 · Vol. 45, no. 3-4
“[T]he great danger in the modern situation, the encounter with modernity, lies in losing one’s sense of what man is.”
The Church in History: Status Viatoris
Appears in Dignitatis Humanae and the Rediscovery of Religious Freedom · Summer-Fall 2013 · Vol. 40, no. 2-3
“Christians are called to form a Christian civilization, not in the first instance a pure civilization, but one where the Christian message has been brought to bear on the saeculum .”
Natural Law: The First Grace
Appears in Natural Law · Fall 2008 · Vol. 35, No. 3
“Natural law thought can never be understood as outside history and neutral either philosophically or theologically. We only approach the world through a specific language and discourse, through a genealogy.”
Why We Need Christopher Dawson
Appears in The Transfiguration · Spring 2008 · Vol. 35, No. 1
“It is not just Dawson’s ideas about culture in general, and Christian culture in particular, that continue to be fertile, but his ideas about how specifically the West was formed.”
The Return of Purpose
Appears in Art and Image · Winter 2006 · Vol. 33, No. 4
The Role of Religion in the Twenty-First Century: A Prolegomenon and Overview
Appears in Joy · Summer 2004 · Vol. 31, No. 2
The Quest for a Public Philosophy in Twentieth Century American Political Thought
Appears in Trinity and Eucharist · Summer 2000 · Vol. 27, No. 2
American Culture and Liberal Ideology in the Thought of Christopher Dawson
Appears in Youth and the Meaning of Life · Winter 1995 · Vol. 22, No. 4
Marriage, Feminism, Theology, and the New Social History: Dyan Elliott’s Spiritual Marriage
Appears in Catholicism and the Liberation of Culture · Summer 1995 · Vol. 22, No. 2
The University as Community: Community of What?
Appears in “The Splendor of Truth” · Summer 1994 · Vol. 21, No. 2
The Ethics of Conquest: The European Background of Spain’s Mission in the New World
Appears in New Evangelization / The World and the Story of Las Casas · Winter 1992 · Vol. 19, No. 4
Deconstructing the University
Appears in The Catholic University · Summer 1992 · Vol. 19, No. 2
The Catholic Moment?
Appears in Oriental Religious and Christianity · Winter 1988 · Vol. 15, No. 4
The Benedictine way of life: yesterday, today, tomorrow
Appears in Aspects of Spirituality · Spring 1984 · Vol. 11, No. 1
The Gay Middle Ages: A Response to Professor Boswell
Appears in Participation in Community · Summer 1981 · Vol. 8, No. 2
The heologian and the Magisterium: The Ancient and Medieval Background of a Contemporary Controversy
Appears in Authority in the Church · Winter 1980 · Vol. 7, No. 4
Allegory, Typology, and Symbol: The Sensus Spiritalis
Appears in Christian Existence, the Eucharist · Winter 1977 · Vol. 4, No. 4
“You Can’t Legislate Morality”: Reflections on a Bromide
Appears in Morality · Summer 1975 · Vol. 2, No. 2
"The real question is not whether legislation will embody moral views, but whose moral views it will embody."