C. S. Lewis: Imagination and Joy
The life of the imagination, according to Lewis, has the capacity to reflect and communicate divine truth; to divide imagination from reason is foolishness.
Great Works & Authors
Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy
The wheel of fortune, the problem of evil, and the mystery of divine foreknowledge are famous problems; Boethius, in a forgotten book, addressed them all.
Defending Our Students From Propaganda
The only defense against the worst is a knowledge of the best. By their ignorance people enfranchise their exploiters. —Wendell Berry
Voltaire: Worshiper of Reason
As one of the principal architects of the French Enlightenment, Voltaire wields an influence on all subsequent world history.
Dostoevsky: Reality and Sanctity
Dostoevsky remains relevant to our time because he did not bind his concerns to his. He thrills with what Joseph Frank called “eschatological apprehension.”
Of Morals and Mystery
Sayers’ work becomes what Woolf calls “a room of one’s own,” a place where she can be at liberty write without thought to the expectations of her sex to marry nor to limit herself to the conventions of her Oxford education.
Epictetus: Slave and Sage
Self-mastery, over both emotions and thoughts, is an invaluable skill that every person should work to acquire.
The Great Conversation: Temperance
“The archer that shoots over, misses as much as he that falls short, and ’tis equally troublesome to my sight to look up at a great light, and to look down into a dark abyss.” Michel de Montaigne
The Bhagavad Gītā: Jewel of India
Though it has been available in European languages for only a couple of centuries, the Bhagavad Gita has had a tremendous influence on the world’s culture.
John Milton: The Blind Bard of Christendom
Images of mutual and contrasting courtesies between the God and angels, angels and man, Adam and Eve, are some of his most persistent; even the damned angels cannot function without a parody of heavenly order.
