Though the term is rarely employed in our time, “Christian humanism” is one of the noblest movements of the last century. It’s a concept much older than the 20th century, of course, dating back to St.
Near the end of his wondrous tapestry of Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil, Alan Jacobs quotes an extended passage from Eliot written during World War II. Eliot ...
What are the necessary ingredients in forming a philosophy of higher education both at the college level and at the theological level? The situation at the time of the Reformation provides an answer ...
If you’ve already read most of the Bible, you might want to mix things up a bit by reading A.C. Grayling’s version called “The Good Book: A Humanist Bible.” Grayling, a British academic, edited an ...
Almost everyone in the intellectual debate over the future of American conservatism these days seems to recognize that the 17th-century English philosopher John Locke is key to its resolution. At one ...
Catholic doctors and medical scholars from across the world will meet in Rome in mid-September to discuss and get training on “Christian humanism” in the medical context. The 26th World Congress of ...
Contributors to The New York Review of Books write to complain about Ian Buruma’s ouster: “We find it very troubling that the public reaction to a single article, “Reflections from a ...
Is technology a religion, a godlike system promising salvation and threatening of damnation? Yes, says Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, in his ...
Christianity & Literature is devoted to the scholarly exploration of how literature engages Christian thought, experience, and practice. The journal presupposes no particular theological orientation ...
Because it can be difficult to define one’s worldview, I want to explore a particular term: non-denominational. In any context when you don’t know the exact terminology, it’s tricky figuring out how ...
Roy Speckhardt announced on February 5 that he is stepping down from his position as executive director of the American Humanist Association. Speckhardt said that after 15 years at the top of the ...