Jonathan Heaps
@jonathanrheaps.bsky.social
Director, Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall University // *The Ambiguity of Being: Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural* (CUA Press)
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CFP: "Belief: Still Today's Issue," The International Institute for Method in Theology's Spring Colloquium. March 6-7, 2026 at Marquette University.
Submissions due Dec. 1
Submissions due Dec. 1
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This is the Scout Law (say it with me!): "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent." Scouting America hasn't changed its values at all. It has simply recognized that they aren't exclusively male.
Is it a 'masculine value' to melt down about some new fake shit every week?
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is the Scout Law (say it with me!): "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent." Scouting America hasn't changed its values at all. It has simply recognized that they aren't exclusively male.
This. Material individuating pertains a to the empirical residue, but person is indicated in the affirmation of judgment.
I feel like the difference between "person" and "individuation" is underappreciated in certain theologies. Maybe partly because the old fights about hypostasis and persona (which begin by trying to navigate individuation!) are a bit lost on us.
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This. Material individuating pertains a to the empirical residue, but person is indicated in the affirmation of judgment.
You can read more about it here: www.shu.edu/catholic-stu...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
You can read more about it here: www.shu.edu/catholic-stu...
*The Aristocrats voice*
Parenting!
Parenting!
I found out a couple years back that my own child had been brushing his teeth with my toothbrush and just not telling me for months and the only way we found out was when we had to pack for a trip and he said he didn’t have a toothbrush.
The odds are not in our favor re: brushes
The odds are not in our favor re: brushes
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
*The Aristocrats voice*
Parenting!
Parenting!
Joey, freaking out bc she found a bug on her toothbrush: “ah! How do I know he didn’t poop on it!”
Me, a good parent: “you dont. The odds are low, but never zero that someone pooped on your toothbrush.”
Me, a good parent: “you dont. The odds are low, but never zero that someone pooped on your toothbrush.”
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Joey, freaking out bc she found a bug on her toothbrush: “ah! How do I know he didn’t poop on it!”
Me, a good parent: “you dont. The odds are low, but never zero that someone pooped on your toothbrush.”
Me, a good parent: “you dont. The odds are low, but never zero that someone pooped on your toothbrush.”
Actual text to my wife:
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Actual text to my wife:
Millie: also sleepy
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Millie: also sleepy
He sure is getting bigger, but I’m glad he’s not getting too grown up for Star Wars blankets or Calvin and Hobbs comics
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
He sure is getting bigger, but I’m glad he’s not getting too grown up for Star Wars blankets or Calvin and Hobbs comics
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If DOJ appeals, even if it wins, it will still have to overcome other landmines in the case, including whether the grand jury actually voted on the indictment.
If it doesn’t, it will be stuck with a court-appointed U.S. attorney who might not be inclined to indict either Comey or James again.
If it doesn’t, it will be stuck with a court-appointed U.S. attorney who might not be inclined to indict either Comey or James again.
Leavitt: “We believe the attorney in this case, Lindsey Halligan, is not only extremely qualified…but she was in fact legally appointed. And I know the DOJ will be appealing this in very short order.”
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
If DOJ appeals, even if it wins, it will still have to overcome other landmines in the case, including whether the grand jury actually voted on the indictment.
If it doesn’t, it will be stuck with a court-appointed U.S. attorney who might not be inclined to indict either Comey or James again.
If it doesn’t, it will be stuck with a court-appointed U.S. attorney who might not be inclined to indict either Comey or James again.
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Fergus Kerr OP passed away on Sunday. Learning about Wittgenstein from him was one of the highlights of my education
He wasn't just a fiercely brilliant philosopher and theologian, but also distinctive for his kindness. He was a real light in my academic sojourn. Rest in peace.
He wasn't just a fiercely brilliant philosopher and theologian, but also distinctive for his kindness. He was a real light in my academic sojourn. Rest in peace.
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Fergus Kerr OP passed away on Sunday. Learning about Wittgenstein from him was one of the highlights of my education
He wasn't just a fiercely brilliant philosopher and theologian, but also distinctive for his kindness. He was a real light in my academic sojourn. Rest in peace.
He wasn't just a fiercely brilliant philosopher and theologian, but also distinctive for his kindness. He was a real light in my academic sojourn. Rest in peace.
See, my own view is that Star Wars is above all a vibe and so all Star Wars evaluations is entirely vibes based.
Rogue One simply had the vibe.
Hot Take: so did The Force Awakens
Rogue One simply had the vibe.
Hot Take: so did The Force Awakens
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
See, my own view is that Star Wars is above all a vibe and so all Star Wars evaluations is entirely vibes based.
Rogue One simply had the vibe.
Hot Take: so did The Force Awakens
Rogue One simply had the vibe.
Hot Take: so did The Force Awakens
This is very niche, but I’m proud of it
“By the way—every case you ever brought is dismissed. You’re not a lawfully appointed prosecutor so it’s weird saying that but just letting you know."
Lindsey Halligan's appointment as interim U.S. attorney invalid and dismissed the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James. Screenshot from order in the latter below:
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is very niche, but I’m proud of it
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Continental philosophy enjoyers be like:
Look, I just don't like books in which it is easy to tell what is happening.
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Continental philosophy enjoyers be like:
“By the way—every case you ever brought is dismissed. You’re not a lawfully appointed prosecutor so it’s weird saying that but just letting you know."
Lindsey Halligan's appointment as interim U.S. attorney invalid and dismissed the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James. Screenshot from order in the latter below:
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“By the way—every case you ever brought is dismissed. You’re not a lawfully appointed prosecutor so it’s weird saying that but just letting you know."
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fwiw we mostly keep trying to common sense gender fights, which is mostly how we experience the thing (ie bathrooms, clothing), but we’re leaving aside questions of self-transcendence to our detriment.
In a very practical way, CS Lewis is illustrating how propriety and modesty are functions of common sense, enabling legibility in a context, whereas virtues (like chastity) enable self-transcendence.
Regarding behavior, there's a chapter on sexual morality that begins with one of the least popular Christian virtues: modesty. Here's what CS Lewis had to say:
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
fwiw we mostly keep trying to common sense gender fights, which is mostly how we experience the thing (ie bathrooms, clothing), but we’re leaving aside questions of self-transcendence to our detriment.
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The last year or so has really hammered home to me why the Wicked and the Fool are so often paired titles in the psalms.
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The last year or so has really hammered home to me why the Wicked and the Fool are so often paired titles in the psalms.
One more time, for the folks all the way in the back:
Not all stupidity is evil, but evil is always also stupid. The more evil, the more stupid, in direct proportion.
Not all stupidity is evil, but evil is always also stupid. The more evil, the more stupid, in direct proportion.
Me on DOJ’s behavior: “it’s malevolence *exacerbated* by incompetence. That’s problematic enough for the government’s credibility before federal district judges. But at some point soon, one suspects that the Supreme Court itself may well have to grapple with its consequences—or risk being duped.”
194. Another Bad Week for the Presumption of Regularity
Three different flashpoints highlight how much the Trump administration has done, in such short order, to undermine its own litigation efforts and to damage—perhaps irreparably—DOJ's credibility.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
One more time, for the folks all the way in the back:
Not all stupidity is evil, but evil is always also stupid. The more evil, the more stupid, in direct proportion.
Not all stupidity is evil, but evil is always also stupid. The more evil, the more stupid, in direct proportion.
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Abrego's attys just supplemented his motion to dismiss for vindictive prosec. with evidence of the govt's "brazen & misleading conduct" in his civil case—claiming Costa Rica wouldn't take him—& urging the need to hear testimony from DAG Blanche et al. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#230 in United States v. Abrego Garcia (M.D. Tenn., 3:25-cr-00115) – CourtListener.com
NOTICE of Supplemental Information by Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia re 104 MOTION to Dismiss for Vindictive and Selective Prosecution (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A - Zamora Cordero statement to Washingto...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Abrego's attys just supplemented his motion to dismiss for vindictive prosec. with evidence of the govt's "brazen & misleading conduct" in his civil case—claiming Costa Rica wouldn't take him—& urging the need to hear testimony from DAG Blanche et al. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Meet DC's newest character: Professor Insight!
"You claim to fight for good, Superman, but *I* seek a higher good - the good of *order*! Your great powers are nothing compared to the universal scope of my new Method!"
"You claim to fight for good, Superman, but *I* seek a higher good - the good of *order*! Your great powers are nothing compared to the universal scope of my new Method!"
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Meet DC's newest character: Professor Insight!
"You claim to fight for good, Superman, but *I* seek a higher good - the good of *order*! Your great powers are nothing compared to the universal scope of my new Method!"
"You claim to fight for good, Superman, but *I* seek a higher good - the good of *order*! Your great powers are nothing compared to the universal scope of my new Method!"
Integralists seem to make the (frankly quite intuitive) mistake of thinking that cultures & societies sublate, & so order persons.
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
lol. amen!
I’ve gotten…obsessed with the social order question in part because I think (writing it now) Ratzinger’s habilitation is actually contributing quite intentionally towards a vision of social order (but not in an integralist way. integralists just get order so wrong)
I’ve gotten…obsessed with the social order question in part because I think (writing it now) Ratzinger’s habilitation is actually contributing quite intentionally towards a vision of social order (but not in an integralist way. integralists just get order so wrong)
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Integralists seem to make the (frankly quite intuitive) mistake of thinking that cultures & societies sublate, & so order persons.
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
Hold on I need to stitch this on a pillow and put it in my favorite chair
I’m designed to do lesser things. Deo gratis.
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Hold on I need to stitch this on a pillow and put it in my favorite chair
Nice little thread about the social significance of clothing. St J H Newman makes an appearance in addition to Lewis.
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Nice little thread about the social significance of clothing. St J H Newman makes an appearance in addition to Lewis.
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If you’re at #aarsbl25 be sure to swing by the @undpress.bsky.social booth to buy my friends’ books (and maybe mine too, while you’re there)!
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If you’re at #aarsbl25 be sure to swing by the @undpress.bsky.social booth to buy my friends’ books (and maybe mine too, while you’re there)!
“Is that…”
An original Hybrid Theory-era Linkin Park coach’s jacket?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
An original Hybrid Theory-era Linkin Park coach’s jacket?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Is that…”
An original Hybrid Theory-era Linkin Park coach’s jacket?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
An original Hybrid Theory-era Linkin Park coach’s jacket?
Yes.
Yes, it is.