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- Edith Stein and the power of spiritual autobiographies
Fr. Pier Giorgio Pacelli, O.C.D. and Br. John-Mary Winter, O.C.D. on the fascinating mind and spiritual journey of Edith Stein - A very figurative and metaphorical God
David Lyle Jeffrey on the poetic character of the voice of God - The story of the demotion of stories
Malcolm Guite on the Enlightenment’s rash dismissal of poetic knowledge - The desires of the heart, the constraints of creation
Roger Lundin describes how Richard Wilbur’s poetry connects aesthetic experience to life in the world. - Layers in “Logos”
Peter Kreeft on the metaphysical, psychological, and linguistic referents of logos
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In this March 2026 lecture, Mary Harrington explores modernity’s “Thomophobic epistemological straitjacket” that bans serious inquiry into the nature of things. Beginning from her personal experience with society’s “mother-shaped blindspot” — the inability or refusal to acknowledge clearly the nature of mothers and their relationship to their children — Harrington interrogates why the attempt to name the reality of form, substance, and ends is now judged as morally suspect. To be modern is to bracket and then forbid the Thomistic distinctions between potency and act, substance and accident, and four-fold causality. The effects of this denial of reality impact every area of life but are particularly sinister when humans turn the logic of this worldview toward mastery over human nature and form. Harrington argues that we cannot discard human form and telos, but that we produce victims and monsters in abundance when we try to do so. Matter is not just matter, she says, but is always informed by logos grounded in the uncaused Cause, that is, God. We must pay attention to our instinctual revulsion toward attempts to do violence to “meaningless” form.
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Guests on Volume 167
- NICHOLAS CARR, author of Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, on how social media affects our brains and our relationships
- THOMAS WARD, author of After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher, on Boethius — the Christian — and Stoicism
- JOSEPH STUART, author of Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War, on Dawson’s forgotten legacy
- STEVEN KNEPPER & ROBERT WYLLIE, authors of Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction, on key themes in the contemporary philosopher’s work
- EPHRAIM RADNER, author of Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty, on the flawed modern narrative of ‘‘betterment”
- ANDREW WILLARD JONES, author of The Church Against the State: On Subsidiarity and Sovereignty, on reality, friendship, and analogical participation