Anti-sacramentalism and history’s verdict
The Vision Glorious, part three
The Vision Glorious
This essay examines some of the principles that animated the leaders of the Oxford Movement and considers their relevance for contemporary opportunities and concerns.
Holy Spirit: Remembrancer
Refresh my memory, / With words of Moses and Jesus, / To help me follow your ways / And imagine your future.
Plato has gone before us
In The Vision of the Soul, James Matthew Wilson asserts that the Western tradition is dominated by one name: Plato.
Spiritual beauty
The creative and appreciative urge are the work of the Holy Spirit, which always has one job in a human life — to make us the creatures God intends.
Sir Roger Scruton: Conserving the world
The earth is fundamentally a religious place — a place of belonging and of worship. It is a place of holy sacrifice, with its highest expression in the Christian sacraments, which “rehearse the solution that previous explorations of the sacred could not find, which is the self-sacrifice of God” (p. 20).
The way of the pilgrim: further reflections on Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups
The fragmented nature of Knight of Cups is itself a reflection of the protagonist’s fragmented life.
Everyone’s a Critic: A.O. Scott’s Better Living Through Criticism
Man does not live on Dostoevsky, or even the Criterion Collection, alone.