Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 164

Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 164

FEATURED GUESTS: Dana Gioia, Brady Stiller, Robert Royal, Richard DeClue, Tiffany Schubert, and Joonas Sildre
Angelic voices: saying or singing?

Angelic voices: saying or singing?

Pope Benedict XVI on the intrinsically musical character of angelic utterance
Torrential winds of doctrine

Torrential winds of doctrine

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the “dictatorship of relativism”
Culture in trinitarian perspective

Culture in trinitarian perspective

An article by theologian Tracey Rowland titled “Joseph Ratzinger’s Trinitarian Theology of Culture” summarizes the ramifications of Ratzinger's confidence that a recognition of the Trinity is the foundation of any reliable and faithful account of the relationship between faith and culture. (65 minutes)
Man and woman as created realities

Man and woman as created realities

Pope Benedixt XVI on “gender” and the devaluation of the family
When reason is detached from truth

When reason is detached from truth

Benedict XVI on what threatens true academic freedom
Fulfillment is ek-static

Fulfillment is ek-static

Pope Benedict XVI summarizes the understanding of Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662) on the true nature of freedom
Creating oneself? Or destroying oneself?

Creating oneself? Or destroying oneself?

Pope Benedict XVI (and Rabbi Gilles Bernheim) on the anthropological revolution that destroys the family
Love and truth precede justice

Love and truth precede justice

James Matthew Wilson on the relationship between truth and love in Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate