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This Page provides an index and introduction to my various writing projects. The Page is arranged as follows:

1. my motto, Deus ergo sumus
2. the Pages on this website
3. my other blogsites and publications
4. posts on this blogsite

A. My motto, ” Deus ergo sumus “[God is, therefore we are] encapsulates my response to the human oriented assertion by Descartes, “Cogito ergo sum”. I use the words ‘philotheos’ and ‘philotheism’ to describe respectively the fundamental concept and the logical paradigm which arises from the concept.  To my knowledge, I am the first to state such a theistic philosophy using these terms: the first philotheist ?

B. the Pages on this blogsite:

• “Preface” explains my Christian perspective and motivation
• “Blog” accesses comment regarding more personal concerns which nevertheless have broader significance, such as the philosophy, direction and management of the University of Oxford whose motto Dominus illuminatio mea merits substantial restoration
• “ABC” highlights the vital need to be self aware and responsible, providing a simple 3 facet model: Attitude, Belief and Conditioning”Holy” explains a vital but much neglected doctrine and practice
• “A.I.” provides a key insight into my thinking as I explain the historical and spiritual significance of “Artificial Intelligence”
• “church” is an essay identifying a fundamental problem which has always undermined the church, “The Carnal Captivity of the Church”
• “History” recounts my personal thoughts concerning historiography and the discipline of History
• “Holy” explains a vital but neglected doctrine and practice
• “O.S.P.” – Original Simple Purpose.  Commenting on the perversion of vital simplicities by the practitioners of complexity, the “experts”,  I identify a strategic issue in the psychology behind contemporary political thought and practice
• “Q-pol” proposes and explains my Quadrupolar model for understanding politics – a primordial Framework of Four Fundamental Factors

C. other blogsites and my edition of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France

  “Expat for Brexit” at WordPress.com

“Expat for Brexit” began in early 2016 as a contribution to the Brexit Referendum debate. I took a more historical and philosophical approach to Brexit. Despite being a British expat living in France, I saw no reason to fear Brexit. Indeed my view was that Brexit should be embraced in order to restore the English/British constitutional and legal tradition which I regard as superior to the Continental version derived from the French statist, dirigiste, deductive approach. The reality of Brexit has proved my confidence and view correct – so far. The UK has yet to eradicate the entire EU culture and the associated corpus of law from its constitutional and legal thinking, as well as from the culture which informs the administration of government.

Christianity.name

Later in 2016, Christianity.name was launched under another title but remains an explanation of the faith elaborated by the New Testament of the Bible. My explanation is distinct from the often tangential theological,  denominational or sectarian interpretations and traditions. As far as I can see,  the Bible describes a living faith in a living God. So, the only way to understand and appreciate the Bible is on that spiritual basis, not as a theological or academic treatise dismissed by people who fail to understand its very practical role. [Note the theme of Paul’s letter to the Colossians]. The French website version reflects the perspective expressed on my website for Philotheos/philotheism – see below – where I take “I AM” as the core conception of God. “I AM” translates into French as “JE SUiS” !

Conservatism.Institute

[archived in summer 2023 and no longer available]

Conservatism Institute was originally launched in 2018 under the name of “Right Wing Institute” before being renamed and modified in August 2021. Its purpose was to promote the principled philosophy of the right wing tradition of the English speaking peoples. As such it aimed to be distinct from the often prejudiced predisposition of much right wing comment. My thinking spontaneously aligns quite closely with that of Edmund Burke as elaborated in his classic text: Reflections on the Revolution in France.

CORE CONSERVATISM: Edmund Burke’s Landmark Definition

Published in March 2020, my edition of Edmund Burke’s classic statement of Conservatism in his Reflections on the Revolution in France flowed naturally on from my Rightwing.Institute website on Conservatism. It has the same purpose, and makes available a far more user friendly edition of Burke’s classic text. My edition was conceived and designed to promote Edmund Burke’s political philosophy to both ‘believers’ and to students of politics and of history.  It is the first edition to number the paragraphs of the text and the first to distil Burke’s Conservative thinking to 3 Principles and 10 Tenets. For decades now, British academia has excluded one of the most important political thinkers of the modern age. The blurb on Jesse Norman’s 2014 biography of Edmund Burke even suggests that Burke was “the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past 300 years”. 

Philotheism.info

Philotheos/ism is Theocentric Philosophy. The conception of philotheism was precipitated by my experience of the abuse of power by western governments in their reaction to Covid. Such abuse in defiance of our manifest history of liberty, I attribute to the triumph today of Materialist thinking over the traditional broadly Christian perspective and paradigm of the western world. I believe that I am the first person to use the words “philotheos” and “philotheism” to describe the thoroughly theocentric philosophy I outline. My usage is consistent with that of the apostle Paul in 2Timothy chapter 3, verse 4.

Exodus 3.14 identified the central conception of God as “I AM”. “Philotheos” describes this central concept and “Philotheism” the consequent paradigm arising.  This distinguishes a faithful, God-centred study of God from the man-centred philosophical discipline called “Theology”.

Esdras.page

Esdras Page is a platform in French to encourage Christians to see the comprehensive teaching and practice of their faith – the approach the apostle Paul identified in his final meeting with the Ephesian elders. NB Ezra chapter 7, verse 10. La Charte Esdras published on 9th December 2025 can be found there with the English version appearing in the blog post for 19th December 2025 here at Deus Ergo Sumus. 

D. the latest posts on this site are listed just below with clues to their content in the titles

Graham R. Catlin