Recently added articles from Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture:
Preface.
Sep 22, 2008; Jordan, Michael C. ... "There is a mysterious and deep kinship between music and hope, between song and eternal life: not for nothing does the Christian tradition portray the Blessed in the act of singing in a choir, in ecstasy and enraptured by the beauty of God." (1) Pope Benedict XVI offered this observation ...
Traces of a Thomistic De musica in the compositions of Olivier Messiaen.
Sep 22, 2008; Bruhn, Siglind ... IN THE YEAR OF HIS CENTENNIAL, Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) is widely acknowledged as not only one of the leading French composers of the twentieth century, but as a voice of timeless significance within Western music. In addition to his love for music with its "colors" and rhythms, he felt ...
Inclusivism in the fiction of C. S. Lewis: the case of Emeth.
Sep 22, 2008; McCormack, Elissa ... ONE of THE SCENES in C. S. Lewis's collection of fiction that most puzzles readers concerns the salvation of Emeth, a Calormene and worshipper of Tash, in The Last Battle. (1) The god Tash is portrayed as evil, as a false god, and is given Satan's job in claiming the evil Calormenes and ...
Christianity and contemporary political life.
Sep 22, 2008; Guerra, Marc D. ... PHILOSOPHIC LIBERALISM subtly but palpably erodes the moral, political, and spiritual life of the regime it helped bring into existence. On the one hand, it powerfully affirms the fundamental legitimacy and desirability of modern democracy and its various attendant goods such as civic ...
The resurgence of religion in the advent of postmodernity.
Sep 22, 2008; Ranilo, J. ... Introduction ZYGMUNT BAUMAN FOREWARNS that the postmodern mind is "less excited than its modern adversary by the prospect to enclose the world into a grid of neat categories and clear-cut divisions." (1) Taking that caveat in mind, we begin, nonetheless, with this ...
Pascal on the uses of scepticism.
Sep 22, 2008; Miner, Robert C. ... WOULD IT BE TOO MUCH to say that scepticism is the "bad conscience" of post-Christian philosophy? None of the main currents of modern thought can rightly be described as sceptical. On the contrary, they are constituted by an uneasy but antagonistic relationship to scepticism. Asserting ...
Glory and the historian: some propositions.
Sep 22, 2008; Radzilowski, Paul J. ... IN THIS ARTICLE, I would like to explore concisely various aspects of the historian's calling as concerns glory. A few general remarks to begin: glory is an aesthetic category above all. This article therefore is not primarily about historical method, epistemology, or the literary ...
Love, friendship, and beauty: on the twenty-fifth anniversary of a magisterial document about religious life and the apostolate.
Sep 22, 2008; Cessario, Romanus ... IN THE 2007 FESTSCHRIFT ESSAY that I offered to Fr. Matthew Lamb, I made reference to the commission of American prelates that was appointed almost twenty-five years ago to inquire into the sharp decline of vocations to religious life in our country after the Second Vatican Council ...
