In Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe, Jeffrey Hart says of the Socratics that they “sought to know ‘actuality,’ which ultimately had to include everything, and do so independently of religion, myth, and received tradition.”1 While the search for knowledge and understanding of science and philosophy is admirable, the attempt to do so independently of religion […]
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The world of Till We Have Faces (1956) presents readers with a thoroughly pre-modern and non-Greek religion. In the land of Glome, located somewhere in the mountains to the north of Greece (whether more Scandinavian or Russian, it is hard to tell), the people worship Ungit, a feminine deity and sacred stone, which emerged from […]
The following is an edited excerpt from James Hankins’ article “The Christian Humanism of the Renaissance and the Revival of Classical Latin,” in the 2025 issue of Meliora, the academic journal of Memoria College. In my teaching and writing over many years about Renaissance humanism, I’ve discovered that the word “humanism” can be an obstacle […]