PREVIEW

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Guests heard on Volume 72

John Polkinghorne, author of Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality, on lessons for theology learned from the inductive nature of the work of science

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Francesca Aran Murphy, author of Art and Intellect in the Philosophy of Étienne Gilson, on the efforts of 20th-century Catholic and French philosopher Étienne Gilson to reconcile faith and reason

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James Hitchcock, author of The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Volume 1: The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses, on the history of the Supreme Court’s decisions regarding religious practice and liberty

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Wilfred McClay, reviewer of two of the biographies about Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) published during last year’s bicentennial celebration of the author, on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s vision of the intractability of human failings and the possibilities of the American experiment

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Philip McFarland, author of Hawthorne in Concord, on how Nathaniel Hawthorne’s sensitivity to the darker side of human nature makes him perennially instructive

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David Hackett Fischer, author of Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America’s Founding Ideas, on the history of how Americans have understood and symbolized freedom and liberty 

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Wilfred McClay, on the theme of place and communal obligation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing

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