Coming up on this episode of the roundtable.

I think even a hard-line Catholic,

which I am not, would agree that if all you needed

was a book with a list of answers to a set of questions, then God, whom you may be familiar with from his work as creator of the universe

wouldn't have had to put on human flesh

and walk around and touch people

and talk to them and look them in the eye face to face because as he was constantly reminding absolutely

everybody he could get to listen for five seconds you can't put what God has to offer the human race ultimately into a book alone.

You also need a face-to-face encounter with a human being that embodies the mind that made your mind in his image.

And even a divinely inspired book and even a book combined and recombined in various different ways

to respond to various individual incidents and questions is perhaps necessary but not sufficient to bring you into communion with God. The Hello and welcome once again to the roundtable your weekly publishers and editors

podcast here at the American Mine. I'm your host for today Seth Barron managing

editor of the American Mind.

I am joined by publisher and president

of the Claremont Institute, Ryan Williams,

editor of the American Mind, James Poulos, and Spencer Clavin, spectral editor of the American

Mind and associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books.

So it's a full compliment today.

Well, it's been a busy few weeks

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The jewel box of all our hopes and dreams

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