Saturday, September 8, 2012

The 17th-century Jesuit Leonard "Lessius argued as if Christianity had not significantly affected the grammar of 'God.'"

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     Michael J. Buckley, S.J., Denying and disclosing God: the ambiguous progress of modern atheism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2...

Cambridge historian Eamon Duffy on the enduring value of his pre-Conciliar Irish-Catholic upbringing

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Faculty of History, Cambridge University "But if we believe in the reality of revelation, and if we believe that the Church is ent...
Monday, September 3, 2012

Flowers for Algernon

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"[von Neumann] spent the last year of his life in Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he surprised and dismayed friends and...

Van Leeuwen's "Brief Sermon on Method"

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"All this to say that when studying human gender traits, gender identity, or sexual orientation, essential conditions for inferring cau...
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 (...