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Latest wisdom from Sound Thinking
- The confident optimism in true Christian asceticism
Philosopher Étienne Gilson on the essential goodness of Creation - The (super)natural theology of fairy-tales
Alison Milbank describes Chesterton’s belief that story-telling is an affirmation of transcendent meaning - The fatal polytheism of late liberalism
Oliver O’Donovan on the failure that leads to social collapse, marked by conflict, suspicion, and violence - Chameleon karma: the fate of plasticity
Cultural historian Jeffrey L. Meikle on how the ubiquity of plastic affected the moral imagination of 20th-century Americans - Touch’d with a coal from heav’n
Daniel Ritchie finds in the poetry of William Cowper (1731–1800) an anticipation of Michael Polanyi’s epistemology
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A recent Bonus Feature
In a world of globalization, bureaucratization, and loneliness, it is fantasy that might help restore a vision of and a hope for human flourishing. So Alison Milbank argues in this April 2019 lecture, using examples from J. R. R. Tolkien’s world of Middle-earth and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Milbank says that fantasy is a revolutionary act, but one of true patriotism to humankind, as it shows us another way to live and to see. Fantasy can break us out of the fatalism of the view that there are only warring perspectives in a meaningless, chaotic world. It can, Milbank says, restore a clear view and a sense of the significance and mystery of the cosmos.
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Our most recent Journal
Guests on Volume 162
- MARK NOLL, author of C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935–1947, on early critical reception of C. S. Lewis’s work
- R. JARED STAUDT, author of The Primacy of God: The Virtue of Religion in Catholic Theology, on religion as the chief moral virtue
- PAUL WESTON, author of Humble Confidence: Lesslie Newbigin and the Logic of Mission, on Newbigin’s belief in “the Gospel as public truth”
- WILLIAM C. HACKETT, author of Anthropomorphism in Christian Theology: The Apophatics of the Sensible, on the interrelation of logos and mythos
- HANS BOERSMA, author of Pierced by Love: Divine Reading with the Christian Tradition, on how to read Scripture receptively
- DAVID PAUL BAIRD, co-author (with Andrew Petiprin and Michael Ward) of Popcorn with the Pope: A Guide to the Vatican Film List, on the Vatican’s 1995 list of recommended films