PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 104
James Le Fanu, author of Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves, on the mistaken assumption that modern medical science has eliminated the fittingness of a sense of mystery and wonder at the human mind and body
Garret Keizer, author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise, on how many noises in modern life reveal a state of warfare with the limitations of our embodiment
Daniel Ritchie, author of The Fullness of Knowing: Modernity and Post Modernity from Defoe to Gadamer, on how Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and Isaac Watts (1674-1748) anticipated late twentieth-century critiques of the Enlightenment (Archive Feature available)
Monica Ganas, author of Under the Influence: California’s Intoxicating Spiritual and Cultural Impact on America, on how the distinct vision of life embedded in “California-ism” has exerted a powerful cultural influence
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author of The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture, on how the search for faithfulness to Christ led him to the wisdom of the Benedictine Rule and a new monasticism
Peter J. Leithart, author of Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom, on why Constantine has an unfairly bad reputation and on how his rule dealt a severe blow to paganism in the West
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