Community, the giver of freedom
Thomas H. Naylor and William H. Willimon on why suspicion about big government shouldn’t take the form of autonomous individualism
Islam vs. modern political categories
Historian Bernard Lewis on the blind spots of Western liberals
Islamic identity vs. nationalism
Bernard Lewis on how the anti-Western sentiment in the Middle East is only intelligible in theological terms
Islam and modern anti-Semitism
Bernard Lewis on the humiliating effect of the birth of modern Israel
The theonomic nature of conscience
Matthew Levering on Reinhard Hütter’s description of conscience: “Real conscience does not give free rein to a person’s desires.”
The aboriginal Vicar of Christ, the voice of God in the heart of Man
Reinhard Hütter on John Henry Newman’s insistence that conscience — rightly formed — bears witness to the law of God
In the image of an Imaginer
Dorothy L. Sayers on the inevitability of analogical language about God (and everything else)
Christology and human relationality
Joseph Ratzinger on how the longing for eternity expressed in human love is an analogue of Trinitarian love
Freeing dogma from arcane captivity
Dorothy L. Sayers argues that chattering about “Christian values” while ignoring theology is pointless
Justice and truth
Joseph Ratzinger: “Plato’s philosophy is utterly misconceived when he is presented as an individualistic, dualistic thinker who negates what is earthly and advocates a flight into the beyond.”