Permanent things : toward the recovery of a more human scale at the end of the twentieth century /

Permanent Things reminds us that some of the century's most imaginative minds - G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and Evelyn Waugh - were profoundly at odds with the secularist spirit of the age, seeing progressive enlightenment as ushering in, not a millennium of perf...

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Other Authors: MacDonald, Michael H, Macdonald, Michael H, Tadie, Andrew A
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Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Mich : William B. Eerdmans Publ., 1995
Grand Rapids, Mich : William B. Eerdmans, [1995], ©1995
Grand Rapids, Mich : c1995
Grand Rapids, Mich : ©1995
Grand Rapids, Mich : [1995]
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references 
505 0 |a Introduction / Ian Crowther -- The great mysterious incorporation of the human race / Russell Kirk -- Father Brown's war on the impermanent things / John Peterson -- Chesterton's Dickens and the literary critics : the thing and the theory / David Whalen -- Waugh's road to affirmation / David Dooley -- "Little systems of order" : Evelyn Waugh's comic irony / Gregory Wolfe -- C.S. Lewis celebrates "patches of Godlight" / George Musacchio -- Chesterton, democracy and the permanent things / Kent R. Hill -- G.K. Chesterton and the science of economics / William F. Campbell -- Finding the permanent in the political : C.S. Lewis as a political thinker / John G. West, Jr. -- What Dorothy L. Sayers found permanent in Dante / Barbara Reynolds -- Perplexity in the Edgeware Road : Four quartet's revisited yet again / Thomas T. Howard -- G.K. Chesterton among the permanent poets / Aidan Mackey -- Darkness at noon : the eclipse of the permanent things / Peter Kreeft -- In defense of permanent truth and value / John A. Sims -- "There are no 'trees' ... only this elm" : C.S. Lewis on the scientific method / Evan K. Gibson -- Some ideas on a Christian core curriculum from the writings of G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, and Dorothy L. Sayers / Alzina Stone Dale -- C.S. Lewis and the conversion of the West / William J. Abraham -- The recovery of the permanent things : Eliot circa 1930 / Marion Montgomery 
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505 8 0 |t In Defense of Permanent Truth and Value /  |r John A. Sims --  |t "There Are No 'Trees'... Only This Elm": C. S. Lewis on the Scientific Method /  |r Evan K. Gibson --  |t Some Ideas on a Christian Core Curriculum from the Writings of G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, and Dorothy L. Sayers /  |r Alzina Stone Dale --  |t C. S. Lewis and the Conversion of the West /  |r William J. Abraham --  |t The Recovery of the Permanent Things: Eliot circa 1930 /  |r Marion Montgomery 
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