Prayer and attention
Why attention can serve prayer without making prayer depend on a particular feeling or mental state.
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What participation means
How something received can become truly our own without becoming independent of its source.
Why distinctions matter
A useful distinction explains a difference. It also shows which further argument is still needed.
Participation
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.
Being-First and Measured Manifestation
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.
Miracles and Divine Testimony
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.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
A reference for Catholic teaching on faith, worship, moral life, and prayer.
Dei Verbum
The Second Vatican Council's constitution on divine revelation, Scripture, and Tradition.
Rosarium Virginis Mariae
John Paul II's apostolic letter on the Rosary as a contemplation of Christ with Mary.
Participation research atlas
Thirteen connected studies, with core questions and answers, source references, and fuller arguments.
Grace and Prayer
A study of prayer, grace, and the Rosary within the Participation atlas.
Handbook on Miracles
An existing resource on the theological questions raised by miracles and divine testimony.
About Robert Dryer
I write about philosophy, Catholic theology, and prayer, with a particular interest in how created life can be fully real while depending upon God.
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