James H. Toner, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About James H. Toner

Deacon James H. Toner, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Leadership and Ethics at the U.S. Air War College, a former U.S. Army officer, and author of Morals under the Gun: The Cardinal Virtues, Military Ethics, and American Society. He has also taught at Notre Dame, Norwich, Auburn, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and Holy Apostles College & Seminary. Deacon Toner serves in the Diocese of Charlotte.

We Must Again Become Soldiers of Christ

By James H. Toner|2019-07-30T15:56:53-05:00November 3rd, 2018|Categories: Character, Christian Living, Christianity, Heroism|

Integrity inspires success on the battlefield and in the bureaucracy. Good officers have the mental stamina to find the right thing to do, and they have the moral stamina to do it. The Church will never be reformed until we have Church leaders who are holy, orthodox, and wise… Blessed be the Lord, my rock who [...]

The Mark of the Educated Man

By James H. Toner|2019-03-26T14:36:02-05:00September 9th, 2017|Categories: Anthony Esolen, Christian Humanism, Christianity, Education, Fr. James Schall, Philosophy|

Genuine education is rooted in the kind of timeless perspective which modern society arrogantly abjures. Such education provides depth and breadth… We are born and live in a certain location and in a certain time. By what appears to be the caprice of geography and chronology, we are thus, in a sense, “locked into” a particular [...]