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Glenn C. Arbery on poetry and the intelligibility of the inner life - Philosophy and loving the Logos
Robert Louis Wilken on early Christians and the pursuit of a virtuous life - Divine demonstration
Robert Louis Wilken on the folly of arguing for God’s existence apart from the reality of Christ - Abstraction, immanence, & the cultural landscape
Artist, philosopher, and art historian discuss the tension between self-expression, transcendence, and the material world - Why the Department of War must be a Department of Peace
Daniel M. Bell, Jr. summarizes Augustine’s understanding of justice in warfare
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Under the guidance of Dr. Jason M. Baxter, the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine College (Atchison, Kansas) promotes an integrated vision of beauty, studying beauty in all of its possible manifestations: in the visual arts, in music, poetry, the natural world, and within human the human soul. Each year the Center for Beauty and Culture offers a select number of “Angelico Fellowships” to incoming freshmen at Benedictine College. Named after the priest-painter, Blessed Fra Angelico, Angelico Fellows believe in the holiness of beauty and the beauty of holiness.
The Center for Beauty and Culture has collaborated with Paul Kingsnorth, Jonathan Pageau, Sir James MacMillan, as well as with Glenn Arbery. Future collaborations will include D.C. Schindler.
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A recent Bonus Feature
In this November 2025 lecture, Glenn Arbery draws on the work of Louise Cowan and several key phenomenologists to explore how lyric poetry works to reveal essential insights into human and transcendent experience. Using various poems as examples, Arbery traces lyric poetry’s ability to illuminate what Jacques Maritain refers to as the inner beings of things and of people. He wonders whether, in our increasingly technological age, this form of literature is precisely what we need to be awakened from dead language into a revelatory relation to the given world. Lyric unlocks the secrets that we need to recover.
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Guests on Volume 168
- 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