Paul Griffiths is a Catholic theologian who has held professorial positions at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, and Duke University. He is now retired from academic life. He has published many books, the most recent of which is Israel: A Christian Grammar (2023). His translation of Pascal’s Écrits sur la grâce will appear from the Catholic University of America Press before too long, and he is currently at work on a book tentatively called Thin Princes: An Essay on Sovereignty.
Picture longing for an inaccessible, distant place. Call that longing farsickness. It is in form the same as homesickness, but it lacks the emphasis on memory. The homesick are exiles who remember somewhere they once were and would like to return to. They include Ovid at the Black Sea, Genji in Suma, and Vladimir Nabokov […]
In this interview Paul Griffiths discusses the contours of a Christian understanding of evil—what it is, what it isn’t, and how Christians can acknowledge it without succumbing to it.
In this interview, Paul Griffiths discusses the contours of the current relationship between theology and education.