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- 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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New Polity is a magazine of postliberal thought that aims to investigate and construct a Christian political worldview. Published four times a year by the Institute for Political Philosophy and Theology, the magazine hosts articles that deconstruct liberalism and build a definitive vision for Christian politics. To that end, the magazine has published articles and debates on a number of topics, including on the political theory of integralism, the morality of investing in the stock market, the social meaning of gender, and the current technocratic paradigm. New Polity also publishes a bi-weekly podcast with series such as “The Politics of Tyranny,” “Good Money,” and “The Politics of Gender.”
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In this 2018 lecture, Ephraim Radner critiques modern pneumatology for implicitly denying the “difficult givenness” of this life and subverting our human creatureliness. He argues instead for a truthful, compassionate “pneumatic realism” that takes into account the world as it really is, with all of its existential complexities and sorrows — one that takes as its model the incarnate Christ. Only this personified “Amen” to our lives can enable us, in this nihilistic world of “elective existence,” to choose life and to keep choosing it. God’s apology for life, he says, is enough.
This lecture is provided courtesy of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding. The full title of the lecture is “Spirit of Life and Death: Modern Pneumatology and the Struggle against Mortality.”
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Guests on Volume 163
- ANDREW YOUNGBLOOD, author of Know Thyself: Classical Catholic Education and the Discovery of Self, on the rise of the classical education movement
- R. J SNELL, author of Lost in the Chaos: Immanence, Despair, Hope, on living in a chaotic universe
- NICHOLAS DENYSENKO, author of The Church’s Unholy War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy, on the historical background to Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine
- NIGEL BIGGAR, author of Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, on the need for a historically informed moral accounting of the British empire
- ROBERT MCNAMARA, author of The Personalism of Edith Stein: A Synthesis of Thomism and Phenomenology, on the deep inner life and penetrating philosophical insights of Edith Stein
- DAVID CAYLEY, author of Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, on Illich’s understanding of modernity