An unwitting agent for the secularization of America
Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and George Marsden explain how a prominent Christian Founding Father added momentum to the secularization of America
An account of God’s relatedness to time and space
Colin Gunton on the trinitarian conception of the divine economy in St. Irenaeus
How the truth finds itself when confronted with error
Hans Urs von Balthasar on the intense radiance emanating from the writings of St. Irenaeus as he confronted heresies
Our bodies, our selves
Douglas Farrow on the insistence of St. Irenaeus that the Ascension of Christ means that our bodies — not just our souls — are beneficiaries of redemption
Questioning “conservatives”
John Lukacs asserts that believers in unending technological ‘progress’ can’t really be conservatives.
What makes a great historian?
John Lukacs on how historian Christopher Dawson displayed a proper nostalgia
From democracy to bureaucracy
Historian John Lukacs on the challenges of living at the End of an Age
Universities as the hosts of reciprocating speech
Robert Jenson on how the Christian understanding of Truth in a personal Word shaped the Western university
The life was the light of men
Robert Jenson reflects on the relationship that should be sustained between the Church and those of her members with an “intellectual” vocation.
The ecstasy of the act of knowing
Theologian Paul Griffiths situates our creaturely knowing within the framework of the relation between God and Creation