The Bible’s “warfare worldview” and our “worldview warfare”
David K. Naugle on the high stakes in sustaining the truth about reality
The restless vanity of the untrammeled self
Sociologist Daniel Bell on the rise of “the idea that experience in and of itself was the supreme value”
The moral imperative of having fun
Daniel Bell on the moral imperative of having fun
The legitimizing role of hedonism
Daniel Bell on what replaced the Protestant Ethic
The obligation of prodigality
Daniel Bell on the hedonistic logic of the “new capitalism”
Desire desires desire
Zygmunt Bauman on being a consumer in a consumer society
Discovering inherited metaphysical commitments
Andrew Davison on the importance for theology of becoming more philosophically self-conscious
Questioning the world’s assumptions down to their very roots
John Milbank on the need for a more robust apologetics
Craftsmanship and the infallible judgment of reality
Matthew B. Crawford on the psychic satisfactions of manual work
Dialectic of reverence and rebellion
Matthew B. Crawford on the personal knowledge acquired in apprenticeship