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
Recovering the primacy of contemplation
Augusto Del Noce finds in St. Augustine resources to diagnose the fatal flaw in progressivism
Confronting the supremacy of science
Augusto Del Noce on the belief that science is the only true form of knowledge
Torrential winds of doctrine
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the “dictatorship of relativism”
Faith as the pathway to knowledge
Lesslie Newbigin on authority and the Author of all being
Unmasking claims of “secular neutrality”
Lesslie Newbigin on the Church’s prophetic duty concerning public life
The kingdom of God has public consequences
Lesslie Newbigin on the subversiveness of the Church’s message to the world
The dangers of the life of the mind
Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., on why Flannery O’Connor encouraged the cultivation of “Christian skepticism”
Remembering Miss O’Connor
Literary critic Richard Gilman shares impressions of his relationship with Flannery O’Connor