Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 164
FEATURED GUESTS: Dana Gioia, Brady Stiller, Robert Royal, Richard DeClue, Tiffany Schubert, and Joonas Sildre
The grotesque and the transcendent
Christina Bieber Lake on why Flannery O’Connor’s readers have to work
The need to recollect ourselves as whole persons
In this 2016 lecture, John F. Crosby explores key personalist insights found in the thinking of John Henry Newman and Romano Guardini. (60 minutes)
The transforming power of false divinities
Romano Guardini on the danger of becoming like the gods we invent
What is lost with labor-saving devices
Romano Guardini on what is lost when cultural pursuits eclipse natural order
Faith that is more than “chemically pure”
Romano Guardini on sustaining a Christian understanding of all of Creation
Shyness: How normal behavior became a sickness
Christopher Lane examines the prejudice in favor of gregariousness which led to the medicalizing of reticence and reserve. Then Ken Myers shares Romano Guardini's thoughts about sustaining a centered interiority. (16 minutes)
The power of images
Romano Guardini on the precious potential of limited images to reveal divine realities
From logos to ethos
Romano Guardini on how the modern worship of the will led to the demotion of reason
That’s why they call them browsers
Collectedness vs. restlessness: thoughts from Romano Guardini and Nicholas Carr.