From myth to sacramentality

From myth to sacramentality

Craig Bernthal: Tolkien asserts that reading fairy stories is a way to ‘recover’ the world”
Mythopoeic power

Mythopoeic power

Stratford Caldecott on Tolkien’s literary achievement
God also was a Cave-man

God also was a Cave-man

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

Bemused by joy

Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., on G. K. Chesterton’s awareness of the reality of both evil and joy
The (super)natural theology of fairy-tales

The (super)natural theology of fairy-tales

Alison Milbank describes Chesterton’s belief that story-telling is an affirmation of transcendent meaning
Accounting for “the unfathomable sadness of pagan poetry”

Accounting for “the unfathomable sadness of pagan poetry”

Biographer Ian Ker on Chesterton’s rejection of the idea of the evolution of religions
Seeing things as they are

Seeing things as they are

F. A. Lea on the imaginative vision of G. K. Chesterton
St. Thomas the anthropologist

St. Thomas the anthropologist

G. K. Chesterton on Aquinas’s complete Science of Man
Not “mere” matter

Not “mere” matter

David Bentley Hart on the spirituality of the material world
Radical faith in the nothing

Radical faith in the nothing

David Bentley Hart on the nihilism of worshiping mere choice