“The Supernatural as a Remedy to Totalitarian Regimes: Simone Weil and the Sanctity of the Eucharist”
in Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca & Stone, Lucian, eds., The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later, New York: Continuum, pp. 38-52
Spirituality
Simone Weil and the Bhagavad-Gita
in E. Jane Doering, Simone Weil and the Specter of Self-Perpetuating Force, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press (2010), pp. 151-182
Love for God’s Necessity: the ambiguity of Simone Weil’s hupomone,
Universiteit van Tilburg
Cultivating hope: Simone Weil, Metaxu, and a Literature of the Divine
in John L. Hochheimer, ed., Hope in the 21st Century, Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press
Simone Weil and Baptism
laityfamilylife.va, Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life; Palazzo San Calisto, Vatican City.
Two Genders of the Soul Regarding the Love of God
Arion, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 119-129
The Cross, the Flesh, and the Absent God: Finding Justice through Love and Affliction in Simone Weil’s Writings
The Journal of Religion, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 53-74
Simone Weil’s Spiritual Critique of Modern Science: An Historical-Critical Assessment
Simone Weil is widely recognized today as one of the profound religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Yet while her interpretation of natural science is critical to Weil’s overall understanding of religious faith, her writings on science have received little attention compared with her more overtly theological writings. The present essay, which builds on Vance Morgan’s Weaving the World: Simone Weil on Science, Necessity, and Love (2005), critically examines Weil’s interpretation of the history of science. Weil believed that mathematical science, for the ancient Pythagoreans a mystical expression of the love of God, had in the modern period degenerated into a kind of reification of method that confuses the means of representing nature with nature itself. Beginning with classical (Newtonian) science’s representation of nature as a machine, and even more so with the subsequent assimilation of symbolic algebra as the principal language of mathematical physics, modern science according to Weil trades genuine insight into the order of the world for symbolic manipulation yielding mere predictive success and technological domination of nature. I show that Weil’s expressed desire to revive a Pythagorean scientific approach, inspired by the “mysterious complicity” in nature between brute necessity and love, must be recast in view of the intrinsically symbolic character of modern mathematical science. I argue further that a genuinely mystical attitude toward nature is nascent within symbolic mathematical science itself.
Providence College, Philosophy Department Faculty Publications
Simone Weil’s Apologetic Use of Literature: Her Christological Interpretations of Ancient Greek Texts
New York: Oxford University Press
Simone Weil: A Sense of God
There is one thread of thought no serious reader of Simone Weil can possibly miss from the variegated tapestry of her thinking. And that is her sense of God, which is almost naturally embedded therein. She unfailingly elevates her every insight to a level that is at once metaphysical or theological. Indeed, Weil considers all human concerns always “situated in the context of our relation to God.” She excludes nothing for she believes that even those practices not readily recognized as religious contribute to our spiritual development and prepare us for loving God. . . .
Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, vol, 9, no. 1, Winter 2006, pp. 127-144
