Chesterton’s Radical Sanity
“The only possible excuse for this book,” wrote G. K. Chesterton at the outset of his 1908 book Orthodoxy, “is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified whe...
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“The only possible excuse for this book,” wrote G. K. Chesterton at the outset of his 1908 book Orthodoxy, “is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified whe...
Recovering the "forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence" alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.
THERE are many reasons for admiring and reading G. K. Chesterton: his wit, his wisdom, his mastery of paradox, his prophetic critique of so many of the absurdities thrown up by mer...
When studying on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in the south of France back in the 1990s, I was privileged to see the caves of Lascaux. Well, sort of. No one is allo...
You have to be careful how you talk about animals nowadays, especially domestic animals. They’ve taken on a sort of pseudo-human status. The internet has almost as many reels about...
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Robert Sardello, Green Man; Earth Angel FOREWORD Tom Cheetham has written a remarkable book that has the power of shifting our way of imagining the world. This power stems from hi...
The Mysticism of Joseph Campbell by John Gentile, Phd But who or what is this man—if man he be—whose image is now impressed upon us in a way that we shall not forget? —Joseph Campb...
G.K. Chesterton once said, “Joy . . . is the gigantic secret of the Christian” (Orthodoxy, 231). Christianity does not deny sadness and suffering but knows them as fleeting and tem...
Mere Orthodoxy 'The Brothers Karamazov' shows a moment in which two people encounter each other not as objects of conquest but as beloved subjects and common persons.
Coburn Dolloff on the miraculous.
By Tyler Hurst, TGC. Review: ‘The Desecration of Man’ by Carl R. Trueman Every generation has a defining theological challenge: a doctrine thrust into public view by events and cul...
If you’ve been following AoM long enough, you know I like philosophy. I’ve written about philosophy on the site and talked to lots of philosophers on the podcast. Philosophy isn’t...
Humanity has not yet dealt with the implications of the Scientific Revolution.
Daniel J. Mahoney, The American Mind In delightful literary forms, he conveys moral and political insights that remain all the more true for being so profoundly countercultural.
There are moments when a simple riddle reveals more about our moral life than a shelf of political theory. The old puzzle about the traveler going to Saint Ives is one of those sma...
Both ancient philosophy and modern physics help us solve the mystery of existence.
The “nerve of the thing” — telling this story based on scientific evidence — would have barely raised an eyebrow among the founders of science. Source
Carl Trueman's latest book, The Desecration of Man, offers a powerful diagnosis of what's wrong with our culture. Can religious faith pull us back from the brink?
Matthew Walther, The Lamp Simply put: Magnifica humanitas is not compelling. Who its target audience was I cannot possibly imagine (though I think I can just about hear the sighs...
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Plough Abraham Joshua Heschel writes about the importance of awe to our experience of creation and worship of God in this chapter of his book Thunder in th...
The Theodicy. Gottfried Leibniz’s answer to the problem of evil.
"...only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited."
Siddhu Pachipala, First Things The pamphleteers are hard to miss. They stand in front of the big doors of Lobby 7, MIT's main entrance, waving, preaching, and flagging down passer...
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