Freed from the burden of choice
Writing in the mid-1990s, Alan Ehrenhalt reflects on the relationship between authority and community
What authorizes authority?
Victor Lee Austin: “All authority comes from God and no thing, no being, no realm is outside his dominion.”
The wide, wide resonance of local details
Novelist Larry Woiwode on the unbreakable bond between specificity and universality
Taking words into the soul
Eugene Peterson on reading as an art of chewing, savoring, and digesting
Reading with our whole might
Marilyn McEntyre on engaging texts receptively
How hymnody produced an important English poet
Christopher N. Phillips on William Cowper’s suffering and (artistic) triumphs
Becoming a serious and receptive reader
David Lyle Jeffrey offers a thoughtful reading of C. S. Lewis’s account of thoughtful reading
A very figurative and metaphorical God
David Lyle Jeffrey on the poetic character of the voice of God
From enthusiasm to discernment
Hans Urs von Balthasar on how the assumption that taste is entirely subjective is a function of immaturity
The eclipsing of happiness
Reinhard Hütter on the Christian recognition that happiness is only intelligible in light of the end for which we were created