paul j. griffiths

This page may eventually contain drafts of works at various stages of completion. You’re free to consult anything here, on the understanding that nothing is in remotely final form, and may be dramatically changed or removed without notice or explanation.

I’ve just (March 2010) completed a draft (120K words) of a commentary on the Song of Songs for the Scriptural Commentary series being published by Brazos Press. It’s a commentary on the Latin text (Nova Vulgata), and is a theological and figural commentary. Perhaps it will appear in print late in 2010.

The next large project remains unclear to me. I have fragments of book-length projects in various stages of completion, including:

• A draft of something called How Catholics Think: An Essay on Intellectual Style. But this is very imperfect.
• Notes for a book on annihilation: on the variety of things, that is, which may be brought to nothing in the strict and proper sense. This would be an eschatological and an ethical essay, and would draw upon published work on self-annihilation and on quietism, as well as on unpublished work on the end of the inner theater. It would also treat, more systematically, disputable theological questions having to do with what we should and should not expect to endure in heaven, before the face of the Lord.
• Notes for a book on Christian skepticism, drawing principally on Augustine, Pascal, and Newman. The fundamental question here would be: what does it belong to the grammar of Christian thought to deny the possibility of knowing, here below? And what theological significance does such a denial have?