PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 86
Roger Lundin, editor of There Before Us: Religion, Literature and Culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry, on why, after Vietnam, American literary critics forgot about American religion
Lawrence Buell, author of The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination, on diverse visions of America and Nature
Harold K. Bush, Jr., author of Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age, on the glorification of the American way as a civil religion
Roger Lundin on the transformation of the nature of belief in the late nineteenth century
Katherine Shaw Spaht, author of “The Modern American Covenant Marriage Movement: Its Origins and Future,” on radical autonomy, marriage, divorce, and law
Steven L. Nock, co-author of “What Does Covenant Mean for Relationships?,” on how broadly shared cultural assumptions affect laws regulating marriage and divorce
Norman Klassen and Jens Zimmermann, co-authors of The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education, on the Incarnation and humanism, and on how various dualisms affect our assumptions about faith, knowledge, and higher education
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