Saturday, October 20, 2012

"What appears at first sight as a rare or highly specialized experience of mystical development 'writes large' the outline by which the surrender that is faith evolves into its own fullness in many lives."

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     "It is in this deeply mysterious assimilation to Christ, this gradual movement from the initial stages of purification from expect...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

"Apart from a rather dense and elaborate nexus of liturgical and congregational gestures, words, practices, and so on, how do Christian people show that they believe in [something like the] real presence?"

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     "The observable differences in Catholic and Lutheran practice raise the question whether the Lutheran lex orandi, their liturgica...
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...