How communities remember who they are
Oliver O’Donovan on the necessity of tradition in sustaining communal identity
Cultural participation in reconciliation
Jonathan Wilson on faithfully representing Creation in the culture of the Church
Fujimura, Hibbs, & Siedell: Abstraction, immanence, & the cultural landscape
Artist, philosopher, and art historian discuss the tension between self-expression, transcendence, and the material world.
The witness of goodness and beauty to truth
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the apologetic necessity of holiness and great art
The publicly inert Christ of modernity
Dom Anscer Vonier on secularism’s confidence in its freedom from Christ
Which story is ours?
“Instead of allowing the Bible to shape us, we may in fact be allowing our culture to shape the Bible for us.”
The reasonableness of love
Terry Eagleton on the myth of the disinterested pursuit of truth
Radical faith in the nothing
David Bentley Hart on the nihilism of worshiping mere choice
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