Discernment of personal mission
Thomas C. Oden on how he came to understand his vocation within a slow growth toward orthodoxy
Divorcing the spirit of the age
Thomas C. Oden on overcoming the theological faddism of the late twentieth century
Education, reason, and the Good
Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson on C. S. Lewis’s argument about natural law
Life without limits?
Robert Westbook on Christopher Lasch’s critique of the modern rejection of limits
Infrastructures of addiction
Christopher Lasch on the subversive effects of the expectation of novelty
The past as presence, not souvenir
Historian Christopher Lasch on the importance of recognizing our dependence on the past
Materialism and the problem of mind
David Bentley Hart on the evasiveness implicit on all efforts to explain away human consciousness
Dreary atheist fundamentalism
David Bentley Hart defends the naturalness of religious belief against the assertions of the Naturalists
Bemused by joy
Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., on G. K. Chesterton’s awareness of the reality of both evil and joy
Accounting for “the unfathomable sadness of pagan poetry”
Biographer Ian Ker on Chesterton’s rejection of the idea of the evolution of religions