The rise of God as capricious and willful
Jean Bethke Elshtain on the effects of nominalism on the Western understanding of divine (and human) sovereignty
Haunted by entropy
John Patrick Diggins on Henry Adams’s fear that “science will wreck us.”
The problem of authority is the problem of unbelief
John Patrick Diggins on Max Weber’s struggle to imagine social order without authority
Patients needing patience
Gilbert Meilaender on the quest for greater longevity
How should we then die?
Stanley Hauerwas asks how the fear of death shapes the practice of medicine
Longing for God’s beauty
Dietrich von Hildebrand on the quasi-sacramental function of visible and audible beauty
Beauty and a hermeneutics of creation
David Bentley Hart on the goodness of beauty
Mythopoeic power
Stratford Caldecott on Tolkien’s literary achievement
From myth to sacramentality
Craig Bernthal: Tolkien asserts that reading fairy stories is a way to ‘recover’ the world”
Loss of significance
Steve Talbott on how technology alienates us from the world