Below is a list of subjects — including the names of people whose ideas are discussed — explored in interviews, recorded lectures, or in posts in Sound thinking.
The number following each topic indicates the number of posts or programs tagged with that name or subject.
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1950s (1) Abuse (1) Academic freedom (2) Acedia (6) Adams, Henry (1) Adams, John (1) Adoption (1) Advent (8) Advertising (2) Aesthetics (5) Agnosticism (1) Agrarianism (5) Agriculture (6) Alienation (2) Allen, Woody (1) Alvin (1) Ambition (1) American history (9) American War of Independence (1) Americanism (3) Amish culture (1) Analogy (2) Analogy of being (1) Anthropology (2) Anti-Catholic prejudice (1) Anti-Seminitism (1) Antinomianism (1) Apologetics (7) Apprenticeship (2) Aquinas, Thomas (15) Architecture (3) Arendt, Hannah (2) Aristotle (5) Arnold, Matthew (2) Art (22) Art and theology (4) Art—Meaning (7) Arthur, King (1) Artificial intelligence (2) Artists (6) Arts (3) Asceticism (1) Atheism (12) Attentiveness (7) Auden, W. H. (4) Authenticity (2) Authority (30) Automation (2) Babich (1) Bach, Johann Sebastian (15) Bacon, Francis (5) Balthasar, Hans Urs von (8) Baptism (1) Barcelona (film) (1) Barfield, Owen (4) Baseball (1) Basil of Caesarea (1) Bauckham, Richard (2) Beatific vision (3) Beauty (21) Beer (2) Being (3) Belief (10) Bell, Daniel (8) Benedict XVI (7) Benson (1) Benson, Robert Hugh (0) Beowulf (1) Berdyaev, Nicholas (2) Bergman, Ingmar (3) Berman, Harold (1) Bernheim, Gilles (1) Berry, Wendell (17) Biber, Heinrich (1) Bible Reading (1) Bible—Interpretation (5) Bible—New Testament (3) Bible—Revelation (1) Bible—Translations (4) Bible—United States (1) Bioethics (24) Biology (2) Blake, William (1) Bloom, Harold (1) Body (18) Body image (3) Boffetti, Jason (1) Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (2) Book of Common Prayer (1) Books (6) Boredom (3) Borgmann, Albert (5) Boyd, Gregory (1) Brady, Nicholas (1) Branch, Lori (1) Bread (1) Britten, Benjamin (1) Brownson, Orestes A. (1) Bruderhof (1) Burke, Edmund (1) Buxtehude, Dieterich (1) Byrd, William (1) Caldecott, Stratford (6) California (3) Calvin, John (1) Camus, Albert (1) Capitalism (15) Cars (1) Cash, Johnny (1) Catholic social teaching (3) Causality (2) Celebration (1) Celebrity culture (1) Charpentier, Marc-Antoine (1) Chaucer, Geoffrey (1) Chesterton, G. K. 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(0) Dada (1) Dante Alighieri (4) Darwin, Charles (1) Dawson, Christopher (4) Death (9) Deconstructionism (1) Deification (1) Del Noce, Augusto (9) Democracy (17) Dennett, Daniel (2) Derrida, Jacques (1) Descartes, René (3) Desire (7) Desmond, William (4) Dickens, Charles (1) Discipleship (7) Distraction (5) Distributism (1) Divine sovereignty (1) Doctrine (2) Dogma (1) Donne, John (2) Dooyeweerd, Herman (1) Dostoevsky, Fyodor (2) Doubt (2) Drama (1) Driving (1) Dryden, John (1) Eadie, Betty (1) Early Church (6) Eastern Orthodoxy (2) Eastwood, Clint (1) Eating (1) Ecology (11) Economics (19) Education (59) Edwards, Jonathan (2) Egalitarianism (1) Eliot, T. S. (4) Ellul, Jacques (4) Embodiment (14) Emerging adults (3) Emerson, Ralph Waldo (2) Emotivism (1) Empathy (1) Empire (3) Endo, Shusaku (1) Englehardt, H. Tristam Jr. (1) Enlightenment (14) Epistemology (3) Equality (5) Ethics (15) Eucharist (3) Eugenics (1) Europe (1) Euthanasia (2) Evangelicalism (3) Evangelicalism—History (5) Evangelism (2) Evil (4) Evolution (2) Faces (2) Fairy stories (17) Faith (7) Faith and reason (12) Family (14) Fantasy (6) Farming (6) Faulkner, William (1) Feminism (1) Festivity (2) Fiction (11) Figural speech (1) Film (11) First Amendment (3) First Things (0) Food and drink (11) Form (1) Forster, E. M. (1) Foucault, Michael (2) Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (2) Francis of Assisi (1) Free speech (1) Freedom (56) French Revolution (1) Freud, Lucian (1) Freud, Sigmund (1) Friedman, Milton (1) Friendship (9) Frye, Northrup (1) Fujimura, Makoto (6) Funerals (1) Gardens (4) Gaudium et spes (1) Gender (9) Generosity (1) Genetic engineering (2) Gergen, Kenneth (1) Gerhardt, Paul (1) Gibbon, Edward (1) Gift (6) Gilson, Étienne (4) Giroux, Robert (2) Globalization (3) Gnosticism (5) God and Creation (11) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1) Good (10) Goodness (2) Gothic literature (1) Government (3) Grant, George Parkin (3) Gratitude (3) Grief (1) Griffiths, Paul (3) Guardini, Romano (6) Hagen, Gunther von (2) Hagiographies (1) Hall, Donald (3) Hamann, Johann Georg (5) Handel, George Frideric (2) Happiness (5) Hart, David Bentley (25) Harvard University (1) Hassler, Hans Leo (1) Hate speech (1) Hauerwas, Stanley (14) Havel, Vaclav (2) Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1) Haydn, Joseph (1) Health (3) Hedonism (2) Heresies (1) Higher education (36) Hildebrand, Alice von (1) Hildebrand, Dietrich von (7) Historians (5) History (24) Hitchcock, Alfred (1) Hitchens, Christopher (1) Hobbes, Thomas (1) Holiness (2) Holmboe, Vagn (1) Holy Spirit (1) Holy Week (5) Homer (1) Homosexuality (2) Hooker, Richard (2) Hope (2) Hopkins, Gerard Manley (3) Hospitality (1) Houston, James (1) Howard, Thomas Albert (4) Howells, Herbert (1) Human dignity (16) Human nature (40) Humanae Vitae (2) Humanism (8) Humanities (4) Humility (1) Huxley, Aldous (3) Hymns (11) Identity (17) Identity Politics (1) Idolatry (1) Illich, Ivan (4) Images (4) Imagination (30) Imago Dei (3) Immortality (1) Imperialism (1) In vitro fertilization (1) Incarnation (13) Individualism (20) Individuality (2) Industrialization (3) Inklings (3) Intellect (2) Intellectual life (13) Internet (4) Introspection (3) Inwardness (3) Irony (1) Islam (5) Islam—History (5) Israel (1) J. R. R. (1) James, P. D. (4) Jaroslav Pelikan (1) Jesus Christ—Crucifixion (1) Jesus Christ—Passion—Music (7) Josquin des Prez (1) Journalism (1) Joy (2) Jung, Carl Gustav (3) Justice (3) Kant, Immanuel (2) Kaufman, Charlie (1) Kennedy, John F. (2) Kenyon, Jane (2) Kernan (1) Kierkegaard, Søren (1) Kiku Adatto (1) Kingdom of God (3) Kingship (2) Kirk, Russell (2) Knowledge (25) Kolakowski, Leszek (2) Kuyper, Abraham (2) L’Engle, Madeleine (1) Lamentations (3) Language (28) Lasch, Christopher (13) Lassus, Orlande de (2) Last Days of Disco, The (film) (1) Laudato si’ (1) Law (19) Leadership (2) Learning (7) Lee, Philip (1) Lee, Robert E. (1) Leisure (2) Lent (3) lewis (0) Lewis, C. S. (43) Liberal arts (15) Liberalism (27) Life (3) Light (3) Limits (9) Literary theory (2) Literature (32) Liturgy (6) Localism (6) Locke, John (2) Logos (7) Loneliness (1) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (2) Love (19) Lubac, Henri de (5) Łukaszewski, Paweł (1) Luther, Martin (5) Lyotard, Jean-François (1) MacDonald, George (19) MacIntyre, Alasdair (10) Magic (4) Maier, Walter A. (1) Manhattan Project (4) Marglin, Stephen A. (1) Marion (1) Maritain, Jacques (6) Marriage (12) Marx, Karl (3) Marxism (5) Mary, Blessed, Virgin, Saint (1) Mascall, E. L. (3) Materialism (9) Mathematics (0) Max Frisch (1) Maximus the Confessor (2) McEntyre, Marilyn (8) McLuhan, Marshall (2) Meaning (4) Mechanistic thought (2) Media (14) Medical Ethics (16) Medicine (16) Medieval culture (2) Memory (2) Mendelssohn, Felix (3) Merchant, Ismail (1) Merton, Thomas (1) Metaphor (2) Metaphysics (23) Metropolitan (film) (1) Michael L. (1) Middle East—History (2) Miller, Vincent (3) Milosz, Czeslaw (4) Mind (1) Missionaries (3) Modernism (5) Modernity (38) Monasteries (5) Montgomery (1) Moralism (1) Moralistic therapeutic deism (1) Morality (3) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1) Music (31) Music and theology (6) Music—History (5) Music, Church (25) Music, Renaissance (10) Mystery (3) Myth (17) Narcissism (2) Narrative (1) Nationalism (2) Nativity (1) Natura pura (4) Natural Law (11) Natural philosophy (4) Naturalism (3) Nature (11) Neighborhoods (1) Neuhaus, Richard John (4) Neuroscience (2) New Age movement (1) New Urbanism (4) Newbigin, Lesslie (9) Newman, John Henry (7) Newton, John (1) Nicholas (1) Nietzsche, Friedrich (2) Nihilism (9) Noise (1) Nominalism (4) Nostalgia (1) Nouvelle Théologie (3) Novelists (5) Novels (3) Novelty (1) Nudity (1) Nye, David E. (4) O Antiphons (1) O’Brian, Patrick (1) O’Connor, Flannery (17) O’Donovan, Oliver (36) Objectivity (2) Obscenity (1) Oden, Thomas (4) Oliver (1) Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1) Original sin (2) Orwell, George (1) Paganism (2) Painting (1) Parenting (3) Pärt, Arvo (6) Participation (9) Partner (1) Partners (15) Pascal (1) Passion Oratorios (1) Patriotism (2) Patristic theology (8) Percy, Walker (5) Persons (5) Peterson (1) Peterson, Jordan (1) Philology (1) Philosophy (12) Philosophy and theology (10) Pieper, Josef (6) Place (8) Plastic (2) Plato (5) Platonism (2) Play (4) Pluralism (1) Poetry (38) Poets (17) Polanyi, Michael (7) Political authority (6) Political philosophy (15) Political theology (19) Politics (21) Polycarp (1) Pope Francis (1) Pope Leo XII (1) Popular culture (5) Popular music (2) Populism (2) Pornography (1) Porter, Stephen L. (1) Positivism (2) Postman, Neil (2) Postmodernism (5) Postmodernity (4) Poverty (3) Power (1) Powers, J. F. (1) Praetorius, Michael (2) Pragmatism (1) Prayer (2) Preaching (2) Pride (1) Printing (1) Privatization of faith (1) Procreation (3) Progress (6) Progressivism (1) Protestantism (5) Psychiatry (7) Psychoanalysis (1) Psychotherapy (2) Public health (4) Pullman, Philip (2) Purcell, Henry (1) Puritans (2) Questions (1) Qutb, Sayyid (2) Race (1) Ralph C. (1) Ramsey, Paul (2) Rand, Ayn (1) Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal (13) Reading (12) Realism (2) Reality (37) Reason (23) Reformation, Protestant (8) Relativism (7) Religion (16) Religion and politics (5) Religion and public life (7) Religious freedom (14) Repentance (3) Repplier, Agnes (1) Republicanism (1) Ressourcement (1) Resurrection (1) Revelation (2) Reverence (1) Rice, Anne (1) Richard (1) Rieff, Philip (4) Rights (5) Ritual (2) Rituals (2) Robert Hugh (1) Romanticism (3) Rossetti, Christina (3) Rothko, Mark (1) Rouault, Georges (1) Routley, Erik (1) Rowling, J. K. (3) Rubbra, Edmund (0) Rushdie, Salman (1) Russia (1) Sacks, Oliver (0) Sacramental theology (8) Sacramentalism (8) Sacred art (1) Saints (3) Sandel, Michael (2) Sayers, Dorothy L. (6) Scale (4) Schaeffer, Francis (1) Schindler (0) Schlier, Heinrich (1) Schmemann, Alexander (7) Schumacher, E. F. (3) Science (31) Science and religion (6) Science—History (1) Scientism (12) Scorsese, Martin (1) Secular (5) Secularism (7) Secularization (14) Self (10) Self-expression (2) Self-knowledge (6) Senior, John (1) Sentimentality (1) Sermons (1) Seven deadly sins (1) Sex education (2) Sexual Ethics (9) Sexuality (9) Shakespeare, William (4) Shame (1) Shapin, Steven (4) Sheen, Fulton J. (1) Shyness (1) Siedell, Daniel (1) Siegel, Lee (1) Simon (1) Sin (1) Slavery (2) Sloth (3) Small group movement (1) Smith, Adam (1) Smith, Christian (7) Social media (7) Social networking (4) Social Sciences (1) Sociality (3) Society for Classical Learning (0) Sociology (1) Solitude (3) Solomon (1) Soloviev, Vladimir (2) Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (4) Sophia (1) Sophiology (1) Spaemann, Robert (3) Spain—History (1) Speech (1) Speed (1) Spirituality (7) Sports (3) St. Augustine (11) St. Benedict (1) St. Bonaventure (1) St. Cecilia (1) St. Irenaeus (4) St. Peter (1) Stegner, Wallace (2) Stein, Edith (1) Steiner, George (4) Stem cell research (1) Stillman, Whit (1) Stories (15) Story (4) Strauss, Leo (1) Subjectivism (2) Suffering (10) Suicide (4) Swift, Jonathan (1) Symbols (3) Tallis, Thomas (2) Tarkington, Booth (1) Taste (3) Taylor, Charles (2) Teaching (3) Technology (42) Technology and culture (27) Teleology (3) Television (3) Theistic proofs (1) Theology (14) Theology of science (3) Theosis (1) Time (2) Tocqueville, Alexis de (6) Tolkien (1) Tolkien, J. R. R. (22) Totalitarianism (10) Tradition (12) Transcendence (5) Transcendentals (4) Transhumanism (4) Trinity (5) Truth (25) Tyranny (3) Ukraine (1) United States—Civil War (1) United States—History (5) Universities (1) Urban planning (3) Vainglory (2) Values (4) Vampires (2) Vices (3) Victoria, Tomás Luis de (1) Viladesau, Richard (5) Vincent (0) Virgil (1) Virtual reality (3) Virtues (21) Vocation (3) Vodolazkin, Eugene (1) Voting (1) Wagner, Richard (1) War (3) Watts, Isaac (1) Wealth (2) Weaver (1) Weaver, Richard (3) Weber, Max (3) Weil, Simone (1) Western civilization (13) Whitefield, George (1) Wilberforce, William (1) Wilbur, Richard (5) Will (5) William of Ockham (3) Williams, Charles (2) Williams, Rowan (2) Williams, Ursula Vaughan (1) Wine (2) Wisdom (14) Witherspoon, John (1) Wojtyła, Karol (1) Wolfe, Tom (4) Wonder (5) Wood (1) Words (1) Work (4) Worldliness (1) Worldview (5) Worship (6) Writing (1) Yeago, David (1) Young people (1) Youth (9)