Winter 2007
Fidelity
‘An Animal That Can Promise and Forgive’
Robert Spaemann Holger Zaborowski"In forgiveness, I allow the other to distance himself from his nature, from the way he is. In the moment of forgiveness, the other ceases to be a liar, so to speak. But it takes permission from outside of himself."
Wendell Berry on Marriage: Marriage in the Membership
Anne Husted BurleighThe Heart and the Wall - Courtly Love and Christian Courtship
Robert E. Rodes , Jr.The Gift of Simplicity: Obedience in the Work of Adrienne von Speyr
Adrian J. WalkerThe Reasonableness of an Event That Awakens Love
Antonio López“What is reasonable is not what corresponds to reason’s self-determined a priori conditions of knowledge; it is rather what aids reason in the fulfilment of its telos, i.e., to contemplate the origin without which human existence becomes il-logical.”
“Face to Face”: The Difference Between Christian and Hindu Non-Dualism
Stratford Caldecott“In the purity of that awareness of the radiance of being, purged of the constructions we normally place upon it, the doors of perception are cleansed and the things in the world may be seen as they are: infinite. This is not Christian faith, but a Christian need not deny its value, its attraction, or its integrity.”