The past as presence, not souvenir
Historian Christopher Lasch on the importance of recognizing our dependence on the past
Materialism and the problem of mind
David Bentley Hart on the evasiveness implicit on all efforts to explain away human consciousness
Dreary atheist fundamentalism
David Bentley Hart defends the naturalness of religious belief against the assertions of the Naturalists
Bemused by joy
Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., on G. K. Chesterton’s awareness of the reality of both evil and joy
God also was a Cave-man
G. K. Chesterton on the convergence of omnipotence and impotence in Bethlehem
Accounting for “the unfathomable sadness of pagan poetry”
Biographer Ian Ker on Chesterton’s rejection of the idea of the evolution of religions
The peril of positivism
Owen Barfield on a popular denial of the possibility of meaning
Mary: Abraham of the New Covenant
Gil Bailie explains how the Virgin Mary brings the Yes given to God by Abraham to its supreme expression
Music that demands an existential commitment
Jaroslav Pelikan on the radical differences between Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Passions
The dance of law and freedom
Calvin Stapert on the experience of joyous order in Bach’s music