Faith that is more than “chemically pure”
Romano Guardini on sustaining a Christian understanding of all of Creation
The confident optimism in true Christian asceticism
Philosopher Étienne Gilson on the essential goodness of Creation
The (super)natural theology of fairy-tales
Alison Milbank describes Chesterton’s belief that story-telling is an affirmation of transcendent meaning
The fatal polytheism of late liberalism
Oliver O’Donovan on the failure that leads to social collapse, marked by conflict, suspicion, and violence
Chameleon karma: the fate of plasticity
Cultural historian Jeffrey L. Meikle on how the ubiquity of plastic affected the moral imagination of 20th-century Americans
Touch’d with a coal from heav’n
Daniel Ritchie finds in the poetry of William Cowper (1731–1800) an anticipation of Michael Polanyi’s epistemology
Recovering the primacy of contemplation
Augusto Del Noce finds in St. Augustine resources to diagnose the fatal flaw in progressivism
Confronting the supremacy of science
Augusto Del Noce on the belief that science is the only true form of knowledge
Faith as the pathway to knowledge
Lesslie Newbigin on authority and the Author of all being
Unmasking claims of “secular neutrality”
Lesslie Newbigin on the Church’s prophetic duty concerning public life