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- 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 - Abandoning answers to the “why?” questions
Antón Barba-Kay on AI and the triumph of the merely practical
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In this February 2025 lecture, Brad East builds a case for why he believes digital technology is the greatest threat facing American Christians today. While it is not the sole factor, digital technology is a primary contributor to the malformation of both American society and the American church. East catalogs many ways in which both arenas are not doing well before going on to show how “screentopia” — the world we inhabit — disembodies, dis-embeds, disentangles, and disintegrates us. He concludes with a call for a robust theological anthropology that can form the Church to be “a haven for humans in an inhumane world.”
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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