Monday, August 27, 2012

Buckley on the indispensability of "a specifically religious intellectuality"

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"It was not the opposition of science to religion; it was much more the endorsement of [religion by] science that generated modern athe...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

"the unjust steward with his impious economy making up for his own private thefts by grudging honour to his Master."

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"'To what purpose is this waste?' — the unjust steward with his impious economy making up for his own private thefts by grudgi...

"I see now the meaning of that else inexplicable humiliation: He preferred to regain me rather than to create new worlds."

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     John Henry Newman, Meditations on Christian doctrine I ("Hope in God — Creator").(3).2 ( Prayers, verses, and devotions (...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

"the loss of a geocentric cosmology of nested crystalline spheres was not in any intrinsic way a fundamental break in human self-understanding"

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     "The interesting and complex story that runs through the lives of Bruno, Galileo, and their learned contemporaries is not, as Rowl...
Friday, August 17, 2012

"How is it that a Jewish atheist is not thought to have left the Jewish people, but the Jewish Catholic has?"

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     Hadley Arkes, in Marcia Segelstein, "Courage and conversion:  an interview with Hadley Arkes," Touchstone 24, no. 2 (March/Ap...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

"although they had borrowed the letter of the law, they could not carry over the spirit that gives it life."

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     "The Constitution of the United States resembles those fine creations of human industry which ensure wealth and renown to their in...

"A false notion which is clear and precise will always have more power in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved."

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     Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America I (1835).I.VIII.22 ("Why the federal system is not practicable for all nations, and ...