Michael Hanby

“It is precisely in being initiated into tradition that we are humanized, that what is most human in us—the capacity to see, attend, remember, understand, judge, and love—is cultivated and strengthened.”

“The Christian life and the Church’s evangelizing mission are not administrative programs but a culture and way of life.”

“America, unlike the nations of Europe, is the essentially modern nation and . . . the American experiment is thus essentially revolutionary—perhaps, in the final analysis, more revolutionary than Marxism.”

“The apprehension of a frog or a muskrat, [. . .] is inseparable from the implicit identification of a good in whose light the functional parts are intelligible as parts .”

“[T]ime is fundamentally a question of an order of being in which we are at home.”

Failure to grasp human creatureliness . . . will result inevitably in a reduced and instrumental understanding of nature and in the reduction of the world to a mere environment.

“Experiment is not simply knowledge for the sake of control . . . but knowledge in the form of and by means of control.”

“Autonomy, severed from obedience . . . ‘is an ontological lie,’ but also a ‘political and practical lie’ that leaves us at the mercy of majority consensus. It is, rather, the calling of Christ and the eternal destiny he opens for us that makes obedience, and thus true freedom, possible.”

“ Aggiornamento toward the sciences cannot mean ceding sole authority over nature to science, but must instead mean bringing science and nature within the ambit of Christ’s revelation of man to himself as a creature given to himself by God, created in and destined for communion.”

“As the very name suggests, techn-ology, as a certain kind of fusion of knowing and making, is not just a way of manipulating the world to our benefit. It is a way of understanding the world.”

“Love and joy by their very act and existence make a radical ontological affirmation, and yet this affirmation is finally only intelligible if the world is created in the Father’s loving delight for the Son.”