James Matthew Wilson

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James Matthew Wilson is Professor of Humanities and the Founding Director of the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing , at the University of Saint Thomas, Houston. An award-winning scholar of philosophical-theology and literature, he has authored dozens of essays, articles, and reviews on all manner of subjects secular and divine, and especially on those where we see the two in their intrinsic relation, as truth, goodness, beauty, and being disclose themselves in art and culture, in the political and intellectual life, in our quest for self knowledge and the contemplation of God. His scholarly work especially focuses on the meeting of aesthetic and ontological form, where the craftsmanship of art-work discloses the truth about be ...more

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Saint Thomas and the Forbid...

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The Vision of the Soul: Tru...

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The Hanging God

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Some Permanent Things

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The Fortunes of Poetry in a...

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The Strangeness of the Good

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The River of the Immaculate...

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T.S. Eliot: Culture and Ana...

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Praying the Nicene Creed

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