Saturday, October 15, 2016

The servility of the intellectuals

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Source "amongst those who clamour for independence of thought, how many have this faith, and above all, the sincere desire to reali...

"shallow modern responses to shallow modern assumptions"

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"Religious fundamentalisms are . . . 'shallow modern responses to shallow modern assumptions'."      Lucy Beckett, Times...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

"The eternal action of Jesus Christ grounded in His resurrection is itself the true and direct bridge from . . . Himself in His time to us in our time."

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"All honour to the human and historical pragmatism of recollection, tradition and proclamation. But in relation to the divine history o...

"The central fact of American religion today is that liberal Protestantism is dead and everywhere triumphant."

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      Matthew Rose, "Death of God fifty years on," First things no. 265 (August/September 2016):  47 (43-48) .

Not funny

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     "For if obrazovat’sia is not a neologism, then one must ask what it is that gives Stiva such pleasure. Not that the word is someh...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The Rev. Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680) on the Cartesian way to happiness

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     "We expect greater things from Neoterick [than Peripatetic ] endeavours.  The Cartesian Philosophy in this regard hath shewn th...
Sunday, October 9, 2016

The heart has its reasons

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". . . and though no reason may apply Salue to your sore, yet loue can higher stye, Then reasons reach, and oft hath wonders donne....