Wild Oscar
November 15, 2004 · Edward T. Oakes S.J., Magazine, Books and Arts
The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
Theologian and Essayist
Edward Oakes
2 articles 1998–2004
Edward T. Oakes was a Jesuit priest, theologian, and professor who taught at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. A noted intellectual and scholar of theology and philosophy, he contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on topics including philosophy, literature, and culture. He was widely published in journals such as First Things and Commonweal.
BEING AND NAZISM
August 3, 1998 · Edward T. Oakes S.J., Magazine, Books and Arts
From one point of view, the fact that the twentieth century's most important philosopher is also its most notorious is of no importance. As the famous scholar of medieval philosophy, Etienne Gilson, once observed, everything in the history of philosophy that can be traced to history is irrelevant…