How the truth finds itself when confronted with error UncategorizedBy Ken MyersJune 30, 2024Hans Urs von Balthasar on the intense radiance emanating from the writings of St. Irenaeus as he confronted heresies
Our bodies, our selves UncategorizedBy Ken MyersJune 30, 2024Douglas 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” Book excerptBy Ken MyersJune 24, 2024John Lukacs asserts that believers in unending technological ‘progress’ can’t really be conservatives.
What makes a great historian? Book excerptBy Ken MyersJune 24, 2024John Lukacs on how historian Christopher Dawson displayed a proper nostalgia
From democracy to bureaucracy Book excerptBy Ken MyersJune 24, 2024Historian John Lukacs on the challenges of living at the End of an Age
Universities as the hosts of reciprocating speech Book excerptBy Ken MyersJune 18, 2024Robert Jenson on how the Christian understanding of Truth in a personal Word shaped the Western university
The life was the light of men Book excerptBy Ken MyersJune 14, 2024Robert 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 Book excerpt, UncategorizedBy Ken MyersJune 14, 2024Theologian Paul Griffiths situates our creaturely knowing within the framework of the relation between God and Creation
A vortex of illusion and superstition UncategorizedBy Ken MyersJune 7, 2024Daniel Pipes examines the roots of “conspiricism” in the fears generated by the French Revolution.
Freedom as conformity to reality Book excerptBy Ken MyersJune 1, 2024W. Bradford Littlejohn summarizes the definitions of liberty offered by Richard Bauckham and Oliver O’Donovan
Looking for solutions in all the wrong places Book excerptBy Ken MyersMay 24, 2024Christopher A. Hall on how Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016) discovered the wisdom of the ancient Church
Discernment of personal mission Book excerptBy Ken MyersMay 24, 2024Thomas C. Oden on how he came to understand his vocation within a slow growth toward orthodoxy