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A Picture Not a Copy: Gadamer Helps Us Honor Art (And Each Other)
At the beginning of Truth and Method Gadamer attempts to rehabilitate art as not merely an aesthetic experience, but as a genuine mode of knowing truth.
Michael Mullaney | The Wheaton Pub | Spring 2016
Resting in the Land of the Lotus-Eaters
We are able to fully understand and sympathize with the sailors’ situation because seeing their vulnerability, we unconsciously yet fundamentally acknowledge our own susceptibility to the same evil.
Eleanor Duan | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2016
Metaphysics in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot
The question of the purpose of poetry as such is not simply academic or theoretical, but is grounded in understanding how poetry can and ought to relate to contemporary culture.
Nicholas Westberg | The Wheaton Pub | Spring 2016October 2017
“Myth Become Fact”
Throughout history, countless characters have arisen who speak or act in ways that remind one of Christ. In light of this, how could Christianity explain its ideas as unique and more legitimate than others?
Becky Bowman Saunders | St Olaf Avodah | Spring 2015
Created to Creator
I encountered Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem “Pied Beauty” last fall, clasped in the pages of a green and white anthology. I immediately recognized its beauty; it is a playful thing, quick-witted and high-spirited.
Kate Massinger | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2016
The Hidden Life of Liturgical Chant in Rachmaninoff’s Music
Rachmaninoff, always inspired by the elder Tchaikovsky, also decided to try his hand at liturgical music, but unlike most of his contemporaries, he found something very affecting about it, and after studying chant in depth, he composed a significant amount for the Church.
Ben Costello | The Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016
The Vatican Billions
How can the Church justify sitting on piles of cash while people around the world are living in poverty? When Her own founder said, “Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven” (Mk 10:21)?
Justin Sanchez | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2016August 2017
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Finding Meaning in a Mysterious World: A Guide to Following the Religious Sense
Our religious sense, so defined earlier as our valences towards mystery, narrative and transformation, plays a critical role in our quest to find meaning in life.
Alex Wyvill | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Spring 2016
Printing in Tongues
Through printmaking I’ve been able to find a balance in my practice between the joy of organic expression and the challenge of thoughtful design.
Morgan Young | The Wheaton Pub | Spring 2016
Grow Where You Are Planted
Trusting my painting not to end up looking like third-grade refrigerator material doesn’t come naturally, nor does releasing control to the Holy Spirit in the rest of life.
André Nelson | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Spring 2016
Thought Anatomies
The visual form of a collage allows for exploration of the mind’s process of coming up with thoughts; how they form, morph, and expand from fragmented ideas and memories into one cohesive image.
Josepha Natzke | The Wheaton Pub | Spring 2016March 2016
November 2015
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Evangelicalism
Sometime in the mid-1990s, sickened by what I perceived as the shallowness of evangelical culture in suburban Wheaton, Illinois, I launched into the post-hippie, proto-hipster nightlife of Chicago.
Matthew Milliner | Wheaton Pub | Spring 2015
The Real and Ideal in Keats’s Odes
Keats was disenchanted with the ideal world of the “supernatural, art, the mind, and the past,” but “the tone of these last poems makes clear that nature suffices.”
Anna Tipton | The Wheaton Pub | Spring 2015October 2015
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La Iglesia de San Pedro
The Church of San Pedro in Ávila is at the edge of a small plaza and grabbed my attention by its simplicity.
Nancy Yeon-Joo Kim | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2014
Scope of Scientific Inquiry
The qualifications of scientific knowledge will aid us in seeing to what extent science is capable of speaking what is true about the reality, and in turn, concerning what is true about religion.
Mu Young Jeong | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2014
