PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 85
C. John Sommerville, author of The Decline of the Secular University, on how higher education, divorced from higher realities, has become socially irrelevant (Archive Feature available)
Catherine Albanese, author of A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion, on American “metaphysical religion,” varieties of gnosticism, and the quest for spiritual energy (Archive Feature available)
Christopher Shannon, author of Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, the Individual, and Culture in Modern American Social Thought, on how social scientists encouraged the rise of autonomous individualism in twentieth-century America (Archive Feature available)
Michael G. Lawler, co-author of Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective, on the development of the idea of marriage as covenant in Roman Catholic thought
Gilbert Meilaender, author of The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life, on lessons from Augustine in defining proper expectations for the Christian life
Matthew Dickerson, co-author of Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien, on J. R. R. Tolkien’s vision of stewardship of the earth
Bonus: Matthew Dickerson, co-author of Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien, on the glory of trees and the shepherdhood of Ents
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