Marno's argument about the philosophical import of holy attention puts death in a curious position. Death becomes a cognitive problem…
Devout death
Saint Augustine
Attention and distraction, prayer and poetry
What is holy attention? Does its holiness have to do with the manner with which one attends, the object of…
Love’s ladder’s God
It was their final conversation. She would soon die, although neither of them knew it at the time. St. Augustine…
The “great sinner” myth
Confessions re-emerged into floodlit attention in the Romantic era of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, when it was…
Love and reason
Anyone who has entered the labyrinth of A Secular Age should welcome this volume as a guide. Its contributors unwind…