THE intellectual life of less self-conscious ages than ours has had no independent existence. Men have sought some other primary purpose, and given to philosophy, to poetry, to story-telling, only ...
For four centuries at least, from the Council of Trent (1565) to Vatican II (1965), the Society of Jesus — better known as the Jesuits — dominated the spiritual and intellectual life of the Church.
The Evangelical Theological Society has its first female president. But what about intellectual life for women in the pews? It would be easy to turn this conversation into a lament over the doors ...
About a century ago, the term “man of letters” was in Britain replaced by “intellectual.” Daniel Johnson examines the difference between the two, and what that difference says about the state of the ...
Word on Fire’s ‘With All Her Mind: A Call to the Intellectual Life’ culls from the example of Mother Mary, saints and creative canon. Book cover of 'With All Her Mind' published by Word on Fire.