True transcendence, true immanence
D. C. Schindler on how believers can be practical atheists
Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters
Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
Against the machine
How careless use of mechanistic metaphors obscures the mystery of life
The danger of a self-marginalizing religion
Alasdair MacIntyre on how the task of religion is to help see the secular as the sacred, the world as under God.
The disabling consequences of winsomeness
Stanley Hauerwas on how many modern Christians offered atheists less and less in which to disbelieve.
Crowd Culture
Bernard Iddings Bell: “It is because the Church has thus obscured the socially prophetic note that it seems to most people to have no relevancy.”
Civil religion and other forms of cultural captivity
Oliver O’Donovan on the danger of accommodating the demands of the Gospel to the expectations of society
Religion for Sundays only
Walter Kasper on how secularization did not eliminate religion, but made it but one sector of modern life along with many others.
Irrigating deserts
C. S. Lewis on why teachers must train the sentiments
Reducing Enlightenment glare
Colin Gunton on the alienation advanced by the Enlightenment