Book excerpt

Robert Spaemann, on the destructive consequences of a merely naturalistic understanding of nature

Nicholas Carr on how technology has transformed our understanding of progress (and people)

Nicholas Carr on the numbing effect of technology

Arthur F. Holmes summarizes the evolution of the just war tradition

Daniel M. Bell, Jr. summarizes Augustine’s understanding of justice in warfare

Oliver O’Donovan on evaluating the conduct of war in light of the evangelical command of love

Tova Leigh-Choate on the earliest forms of musical celebration during Advent and Christmas

G. K. Chesterton on the convergence of omnipotence and impotence in Bethlehem

Tova Leigh-Choate on the roots of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio

Oliver O’Donovan on the necessity of tradition in sustaining communal identity

Musicologist Leopold Brauneiss compares Arvo Pärt’s compositional technique with Jungian archetypes

Composer Arvo Pärt describes how he came to appropriate the mysteries of polyphony