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Alison Milbank describes Chesterton’s belief that story-telling is an affirmation of transcendent meaning - Accounting for “the unfathomable sadness of pagan poetry”
Biographer Ian Ker on Chesterton’s rejection of the idea of the evolution of religions - Seeing things as they are
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- BRIAN BROCK, author of Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age, on science as a human endeavor
- FR. LUKE BELL, author of author of Truth in Person, on the relational nature of knowing truth
- PETER HARRISON, author of Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age, on science as a human endeavor
- KATHERINE CALLOWAY, contributor to Art Seeking Understanding, on Francis Bacon, George Herbert, and poetic knowledge
- BRENT STRAWN, contributor to Art Seeking Understanding, on poetry as Divine discourse in the Old Testament
- PETROC WILLEY, author of Light from Alexandria: Recovering a Vision for Christian Paideia for Education & Formation, on spiritual formation in the early Alexandrine church