David K. Naugle, R.I.P.

Related reading and listening

1. Seasons and everyday saints — Sylvie Vanhoozer introduces a French Advent tradition that involves a community of “little saints” whose stories have something to teach us about following Christ throughout the year. (28 minutes)
2. Faith that is more than “chemically pure” — Romano Guardini on sustaining a Christian understanding of all of Creation
3. Unmasking claims of “secular neutrality” — Lesslie Newbigin on the Church’s prophetic duty concerning public life
4. The kingdom of God has public consequences — Lesslie Newbigin on the subversiveness of the Church’s message to the world
5. The formation of affections — FROM VOL. 101 James K. A. Smith explains how education always involves the formation of affections and how the form of Christian education should imitate patterns of formation evident in historic Christian liturgy. (15 minutes)
6. Sports in America — FROM VOL. 21 Robert Higgs looks at the history of sports in American experience and at how organized religion has interacted with that history. (12 minutes)
7. Divorcing the spirit of the age — Thomas C. Oden on overcoming the theological faddism of the late twentieth century
8. Developing a Christian aesthetic — In the inaugural lecture for the Eliot Society, titled “Faithful Imaginations in a Meaningful Creation,” Ken Myers addresses the question of the relationship between the arts and the Church. (59 minutes)
9. Consecrating the world — Paul Evdokimov on the cosmic effects of the Incarnation
10. Deep conversion — D. H. Williams, Michael Budde, and Robert Brimlow describe the conventional practices of Christian discipleship practiced by the early Church, practices that encouraged the conversion of mind, will, and feelings. (26 minutes)
11. Eternal seeds, temporal fruit — Henri de Lubac on how the Church should (and shouldn’t) make a difference in the world
12. Knowledge transformed by love — David K. Naugle on the reordered thinking of the redeemed
13. The Bible’s “warfare worldview” and our “worldview warfare” — David K. Naugle on the high stakes in sustaining the truth about reality
14. Marva Dawn on spiritual formation and being Church — This Feature presents an interview with Marva Dawn from Volume 38 of the Journal, during which she talks about concerns discussed in two of her books, related to the spiritual formation of children and a more holistic understanding of sex and intimacy. (23 minutes)
15. The eclipsing of happiness — Reinhard Hütter on the Christian recognition that happiness is only intelligible in light of the end for which we were created
16. Dallas Willard on discipleship — Dallas Willard talks about how pastors should understand their vocation as one of making disciples — apprentices of Jesus — and that the training of pastors must include a commitment to pursue spiritual wisdom and faithfulness. (21 minutes)
17. Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
18. Fr. Chad Hatfield and Peter J. Leithart on Alexander Schmemann — Alexander Schmemann’s book asks a set of questions about “Christianity and culture” that typically don’t get asked, questions that re-center our lives in gratitude and worship. (20 minutes)
19. Not just a counterculture — Peter J. Leithart on the public (and prophetic) mission of the Church
20. Assimilation or identity in Christ — Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández on the modern choice given the Church to conform or die
21. The Church as a public reality — William Cavanaugh on how we must be disciples in public, not just citizens
22. Intellectual apostasy and Christian witness — Harry Blamires on unfashionable beliefs about the ends of human beings
23. Cultural participation in reconciliation — Jonathan Wilson on faithfully representing Creation in the culture of the Church
24. The publicly inert Christ of modernity — Dom Anscer Vonier on secularism’s confidence in its freedom from Christ
25. 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.”
26. The dead-end of privatized faith — T. S. Eliot on the Church’s duty to interfere with the World
27. True transcendence, true immanence — D. C. Schindler on how believers can be practical atheists
28. The disabling consequences of winsomeness — Stanley Hauerwas on how many modern Christians offered atheists less and less in which to disbelieve.
29. 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.”
30. Who strangled God? — James Turner examines the ways in which the pursuit of “relevant” theology helped to make atheism plausible in Western culture
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