A beautiful human geometry
Musicologist Leopold Brauneiss compares Arvo Pärt’s compositional technique with Jungian archetypes
A bridge between yesterday and today
Composer Arvo Pärt describes how he came to appropriate the mysteries of polyphony
Singing in praise of silence
Orthodox theologian Peter Bouteneff on the unutterable source of all true utterances
From the heart of silence
Conductor Paul Hillier on the sources of Arvo Pärt’s distinctive musical expression
All trees, no forest
Richard Weaver on the attenuating of knowledge
Christian belief as real knowledge
Dallas Willard on the modern divorce between faith and knowledge
Harbinger of disorder
Mark Mitchell on Michael Polanyi’s recognition of the dangerous dead-end of materialistic reductionism
The de(con)struction of the humanities (and of truth)
Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb on the skeptical tendencies of the postmodern academy
Universities as the hosts of reciprocating speech
Robert Jenson on how the Christian understanding of Truth in a personal Word shaped the Western university
The vice of curiosity
Stanley Hauerwas on the warning from Paul Griffiths about desiring to own knowledge