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Guests heard on Volume 87

John Witte, Jr., author of God’s Joust, God’s Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition, why law needs to be understood in the context of its relation with other practices and disciplines, including religion

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Steven Keillor, author of God’s Judgements: Interpreting History and the Christian Faith, on discerning the presence of God’s judgment in historical events

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Philip Bess, author of Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred, on how New Urbanist ideas are rooted in a natural law framework

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Scott Cairns, author of Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected, on how the writing of poetry requires attentiveness to the life of words

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Anthony Esolen, author of Ironies of Faith: The Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature, on why Western literary critics need to understand Christian convictions, and on ironies of time, power, and love at the heart of Christian belief

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Bonus: John Witte, Jr. on four different configurations of church and state during western history

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