Only religion can save the arts
Camille Paglia: “For the fine arts to revive, they must recover their spiritual center.”
Art and whateverism
Jed Perl on why great art is triumphantly intolerant
Free for obedience
Glenn W. Olsen on Augustine’s understanding of freedom
An account of God’s relatedness to time and space
Colin Gunton on the trinitarian conception of the divine economy in St. Irenaeus
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
Bemused by joy
Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., on G. K. Chesterton’s awareness of the reality of both evil and joySynthesizing instinct and spirit
Jeffrey Satinover on the Gnostic resonances in the work of Carl Gustav Jung
Explaining the totalitarianism of disintegration
Michael Hanby complements the analysis of modernity offered by Augusto Del Noce