Caitlin Smith Gilson

First Make Mad

Fiction

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Human, All Too Human

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Reimagining the Analogia Entis

Theology

“Gonzales is that rare combination of exceptional scholar and visionary philosopher; he has shaken the dust off the analogia entis and, like Przywara, opened up worlds of conversation, communion, and nuance. Breathtaking, exhilarating, and grounded in the Christocentric substance which alone discloses truth, this book is indeed an analogia caritatis—an essential, graceful, and rewarding journey.”

Remarks on Time

Arts & Literature

“Every word in Davina Allison’s poetry is exquisitely chosen. Those fortunate enough to read and experience this inlay of pearled words have finally felt that presence within language that can transcend being—of meaning breaching time itself. These Remarks on Time, echoing Lonergan, transform the existential voice into a voice in love, a voice sheltered within cisterns covered in jasmine. We know the haunting aspect of late nights after lectures, bitter oranges, waterbirds, gardens, and embellished silk. Allison’s voice is perfused and possessed through a total other-worldly love still entirely earthy. This is perfect poetry.”

The Benedict Proposal

Theology

“Nuanced, erudite, utilizing the inviting rigor of a Thomistic interpretive framework of objections, difficulties, and thoughtful Ratzingerian responses, this work provides the creative model for living out the relationship between communion and mission. The Benedict Proposal is timely because it is timeless. Highly recommended.”

The Mother’s Smile

Philosophy

“This is a beautiful book of sincere gentleness and exquisite timeliness. Each page is a treasury of perfect truth from our shared depth of holy silence, words for the heart that speak to the mind. In these words and recollections, we recover the loving and gracious gaze that must accompany the intellect—the smile that changes the course of a life, that gifts us with the only self that is not lonely, the self that knows through love, and leads us to Christ, the great face that will not go away.”

The Thoughtful Muse

Arts & Literature

“William Franke incarnates time into memory, remaking the earthy passions into a grace as pure as one shed tear before the boundary line dissolves. We are transfigured by his wayfaring spirit and experience the kind of recollection that remains forever morning because it encloses the ancient yearning. This is a work of consummate tending, for it is the beauty of time as passageway and passenger, of the once was, the never again, and the always will be, a gift of all love.”

The Vagabond Scholar

Arts & Literature

“The Vagabond Scholar is wisdom transposed into infinite texture and oceanic memory. It is consummate and ineluctable poetry made of intimacies and images compressing time and place, sheltering the deep and pure. Here we find perfect words beneath sunlit words formed from motion and music. William Franke’s poetry excavates the interior mercies that beckon bodies to be embraced. This collection is a gift of companioning, of that exquisite and sacred seal uniting mind and heart.”