Questioning “conservatives”
John Lukacs asserts that believers in unending technological ‘progress’ can’t really be conservatives.
What makes a great historian?
John Lukacs on how historian Christopher Dawson displayed a proper nostalgia
From democracy to bureaucracy
Historian John Lukacs on the challenges of living at the End of an Age
Universities as the hosts of reciprocating speech
Robert Jenson on how the Christian understanding of Truth in a personal Word shaped the Western university
The life was the light of men
Robert Jenson reflects on the relationship that should be sustained between the Church and those of her members with an “intellectual” vocation.
The ecstasy of the act of knowing
Theologian Paul Griffiths situates our creaturely knowing within the framework of the relation between God and Creation
Freedom as conformity to reality
W. Bradford Littlejohn summarizes the definitions of liberty offered by Richard Bauckham and Oliver O’Donovan
Looking for solutions in all the wrong places
Christopher A. Hall on how Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016) discovered the wisdom of the ancient Church
Discernment of personal mission
Thomas C. Oden on how he came to understand his vocation within a slow growth toward orthodoxy
Divorcing the spirit of the age
Thomas C. Oden on overcoming the theological faddism of the late twentieth century