How the truth finds itself when confronted with error
Hans Urs von Balthasar on the intense radiance emanating from the writings of St. Irenaeus as he confronted heresies
Our bodies, our selves
Douglas Farrow on the insistence of St. Irenaeus that the Ascension of Christ means that our bodies — not just our souls — are beneficiaries of redemption
Questioning “conservatives”
John Lukacs asserts that believers in unending technological ‘progress’ can’t really be conservatives.
What makes a great historian?
John Lukacs on how historian Christopher Dawson displayed a proper nostalgia
From democracy to bureaucracy
Historian John Lukacs on the challenges of living at the End of an Age
The life was the light of men
Robert Jenson reflects on the relationship that should be sustained between the Church and those of her members with an “intellectual” vocation.
The ecstasy of the act of knowing
Theologian Paul Griffiths situates our creaturely knowing within the framework of the relation between God and Creation
A vortex of illusion and superstition
Daniel Pipes examines the roots of “conspiricism” in the fears generated by the French Revolution.
Freedom as conformity to reality
W. Bradford Littlejohn summarizes the definitions of liberty offered by Richard Bauckham and Oliver O’Donovan
Looking for solutions in all the wrong places
Christopher A. Hall on how Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016) discovered the wisdom of the ancient Church