Book excerpt

Dietrich von Hildebrand on how the love of God deepens our love for the beauty found in Creation

John F. Crosby on Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Aesthetics and his description of the mysterious signals of transcendence present in earthly beauty

Dietrich von Hildebrand on reverence

Augusto Del Noce on the “technological mindset” and the loss of the sense of transcendence

Augusto Del Noce on the greatest modern reversal

Malcolm Guite on the philosophical concerns underlying Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Malcolm Guite on the Enlightenment’s rash dismissal of poetic knowledge

Josef Pieper on the mistake of confusing education with mere training

Zena Hitz on some of the blessings of the love of learning

Hans Urs von Balthasar on the primitive (but now largely lost) unity of theology and sanctity

Hans-Georg Gadamer on the relationship between light, beauty, and truth

Jacques Ellul on the danger of confusing “technology” with “machines”