The desires of the heart, the constraints of creation
Roger Lundin describes how Richard Wilbur’s poetry connects aesthetic experience to life in the world.
Islam vs. modern political categories
Historian Bernard Lewis on the blind spots of Western liberals
Islamic identity vs. nationalism
Bernard Lewis on how the anti-Western sentiment in the Middle East is only intelligible in theological terms
Islam and modern anti-Semitism
Bernard Lewis on the humiliating effect of the birth of modern Israel
The theonomic nature of conscience
Matthew Levering on Reinhard Hütter’s description of conscience: “Real conscience does not give free rein to a person’s desires.”
The aboriginal Vicar of Christ, the voice of God in the heart of Man
Reinhard Hütter on John Henry Newman’s insistence that conscience — rightly formed — bears witness to the law of God
In the image of an Imaginer
Dorothy L. Sayers on the inevitability of analogical language about God (and everything else)
Christology and human relationality
Joseph Ratzinger on how the longing for eternity expressed in human love is an analogue of Trinitarian love
Freeing dogma from arcane captivity
Dorothy L. Sayers argues that chattering about “Christian values” while ignoring theology is pointless
Teaching for wonderfulness
Stratford Caldecott on why education is about how we become more human, and therefore more free