Philosophy · Theology · Christian life
Explore questions about God, the world, human freedom, and prayer. Begin with a short introduction, follow a larger investigation, or find a resource for further study.
01 / Sustained inquiries
Research atlas
A thirteen-page philosophical and theological atlas asking how created life can be truly from God, genuinely its own, and fulfilled in communion without becoming a piece of its source.
Explore the atlasManuscript
A developing systematic account of reality, dependence, agency, disclosure, and fulfillment. It asks how a source can communicate real goodness without being constituted or completed by what it gives.
Manuscript in developmentTheological research
Research into miracles, testimony, and the judgment that an event is a sign of divine action. The existing handbook offers a place to begin this inquiry.
Visit the existing handbook02 / A place to begin
You can begin with an argument, a doctrine, or a practice.
Start with participation: how something can receive its reality and still be genuinely itself.
02 / Explore Christian theologyFollow the Participation atlas from creation and divine agency to Trinity, grace, and communion.
03 / Prayer & Christian lifeBring the questions into the practices of prayer, contemplation, and ordinary life.
03 / Short introductions
Why attention can serve prayer without making prayer depend on a particular feeling or mental state.
How something received can become truly our own without becoming independent of its source.
A useful distinction explains a difference. It also shows which further argument is still needed.
The person behind the questions
I’m Robert Dryer. This is a home for my work in philosophy, Catholic theology, and the ways they meet Christian life.
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