Volume 85

Guests on Volume 85 • C. JOHN SOMMERVILLE on how higher education, divorced from higher realities, has become socially irrelevant• CATHERINE ALBANESE on American “metaphysical religion,” varieties of gnosticism, and the quest for spiritual energy• CHRISTOPHER SHANNON on how social scientists encouraged the rise of autonomous individualism in twentieth-century America• MICHAEL G. LAWLER on the development of the idea of marriage as covenant in Roman Catholic thought• GILBERT MEILAENDER on lessons from Augustine in defining proper expectations for the Christian life• MATTHEW DICKERSON on J. R. R. Tolkien’s vision of stewardship of the earth: the glory of trees and the shepherdhood of Ents This Volume is also available on CD Click here to download a pdf file with the contents listing and bibliographic information about this Volume. C. John Sommerville "Faith belongs in the academy in ways that would still be surprising to people." —C. John Sommerville, author of The Decline of the Sec