"Christian humanism" and ideology

The website The Imaginative Conservative has this interesting essay, by Bradley Birzer, called "Making Modernity Human:  Can Christian Humanism Redeem an Age of Ideology."  It's about, inter alia, Lewis, Tolkien, Gilson, Maritain, Kirk, O'Connor, etc.  It ends with this:

. . .  The average American student knows that he “is worth something” and “is as good as everyone else,” but he could never name the last serious book he read, let alone one of the seven cardinal and Christian virtues. He may well not even know what a virtue is or that such a thing exists.

All of this should make us return to first principles and to the most important questions one can ask: What is man? What is God? And what is our relationship to God and to one another? The Christian Humanist does not pretend to have the answers, but he knows these questions must be raised. The Christian Humanist, wrote Kirk in 1956, understands that the “past and present are one—or, rather, that the ‘present,’ the evanescent moment, is infinitely trifling in comparison with the well of the past, upon which it lies as a thin film.” Indeed, the Christian Humanist understands that he is always a second away from eternity.