released 7/3/2026
Reuben Slife, editor of a collection of David L. Schindler’s essays titled America in the Mystery of Christ and the Church (New Polity, 2026), discusses the key concerns in Schindler’s body of work. Schindler (1943–2022) focused on “first-order” issues that lie beneath political philosophy, Slife says — such things as a robust concept of freedom, religion, and the nature of reality. He countered a false, atomistic, “neutral” notion of the world and the individual with the truth that both are always already related to God by virtue of having been created. Slife explains Schindler’s nuanced understanding of modernity as having brought both gains and losses, and his desire that Americans, specifically, should see how they’ve taken modernity’s goods but shaped and embodied them in ways that don’t fit with reality. In conclusion, Slife summarizes how Schindler’s foundational theology of the Incarnation, the Trinity, and the doctrine of Creation inform his diagnosis of modernity’s cultural failures.
31 minutes
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