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What should Christian discourse look like after philosophical modernity? In one manner or another the essays in this volume seek to confront and intellectually exorcise the prevailing elements of philosophical modernity, which are inherently transgressive disfigurations and refigurations of the Christian story of creation, sin, and redemption. To enact these various forms and styles of Christian intellectual exorcism the essays in this volume make appeal to, and converse with, the magisterial corpus of Cyril O'Regan. The themes of the essays center around the gnostic return in modernity, apocalyptic theology, and the question of the bounds and borders of Christian orthodoxy. Along the way diverse figures are treated such as: Hegel, Shakespeare, von Balthasar, Przywara, Ricouer, Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, and Kristeva. Exorcising Philosophical Modernity: Cyril O'Regan and Christian Discourse after Modernity is a veritable feast of post-modern Christian thought.

Less is More is a collection of eight ten-minute plays. These tiny dramas speak to the necessity to say what is essential in a small number of words. As Shakespeare said, &quote;Brevity is the soul of wit.&quote; The first play, &quote;The Dissolution Mask,&quote; is by the well-known playwright Nancy West. The next two plays, &quote;Thanatos Calling&quote; and &quote;Leap for Life,&quote; are the first ten-minute plays by David H. Rosen and they speak to an area of his research involving suicidology. &quote;The Tea Gown,&quote; by known writer Maura Conlon, is a moving ten-minute play. The two gripping plays, &quote;Baby Boomer Blues&quote; and &quote;Flip,&quote; were written by the dramaturge Martin Cohen. The final two plays, &quote;True Blue&quote; and &quote;Sisters,&quote; are by an inspiring dramatist Eliza Roaring-Springs.