In the beginning was the Word. Human beings, made in the image of God, share in this utterance, this Logos. Language, then, is foundational to our humanity. How we reference reality, how we translate from one language to another, how we communicate with one another—notably in an era where social media amplify our every passing thought—matters. Everything, from scientific discourse to the sacred liturgy, hangs on the way we use or abuse language. This issue of Humanum examines the freight that words carry, with particular reference to the "misology" and "cancel culture" that afflict contemporary discourse.
Re-Source: Classic Texts
Articles
Book Reviews
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When Words Fail by Edward Hadas
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Olivier-Thomas Venard, A Poetic Christ: Thomist Reflections on Scripture, Language and Reality
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Christianity and the Weight of Words by John Laracy
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Raymond Gawronski SJ, Word and Silence: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Spiritual Encounter between East and West
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Making Dystopia: Modernist Architecture Refuted by James C. McCrery II
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James Stevens Curl, Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism
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"Biology": How Words Shape Our View of Nature by Lesley Rice
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Evelyn Fox Keller, Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology
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The Glorious Form of the Liturgy by Andrew Shivone
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Martin Mosebach, The Heresy of Formlessness: The Roman Liturgy and Its Enemy
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Martin Mosebach, Subversive Catholicism: The Papacy, the Liturgy, and the Church
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