The dead-end of privatized faith
T. S. Eliot on the Church’s duty to interfere with the World
From logos to ethos
Romano Guardini on how the modern worship of the will led to the demotion of reason
True transcendence, true immanence
D. C. Schindler on how believers can be practical atheists
Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters
Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
Against the machine
How careless use of mechanistic metaphors obscures the mystery of life
The danger of a self-marginalizing religion
Alasdair MacIntyre on how the task of religion is to help see the secular as the sacred, the world as under God.
The disabling consequences of winsomeness
Stanley Hauerwas on how many modern Christians offered atheists less and less in which to disbelieve.
How the Church promotes the cause of freedom
Oliver O’Donovan: “We discover we are free when we are commanded by that authority which commands us according to the law of our being, disclosing the secrets of the heart.”
Crowd Culture
Bernard Iddings Bell: “It is because the Church has thus obscured the socially prophetic note that it seems to most people to have no relevancy.”
Civil religion and other forms of cultural captivity
Oliver O’Donovan on the danger of accommodating the demands of the Gospel to the expectations of society