Tag: Quote
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2017-11-26
Screwtape the Christian Personalist
Uncle Screwtape reveals a deeply personalistic understanding of good and evil.
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2017-09-30
Narnian Platonism
I just finished reading all the Narnia books to my kids and ran across this wonderful bit about Plato...
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2017-09-16
A Strong Claim from Zizioulas
Metropolitan John Zizioulas puts in a particularly striking way the historical claim that I am working on in my current book project.
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2017-09-14
Culture of Repudiation
Roger Scruton identifies a feature of academic life that has become singularly disagreeable to me.
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2017-07-20
Description of Early Christians to Diognetus
I ran across this beautiful description of the early Christians in the Letter to Diognetus while reading the first volume of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. If only we could be true to this description, how much better salted would the world be by our presence?
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2017-07-16
Sincerity Formulated into Dogma
James Russell Lowell explains that passion and sincerity are not enough.
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2017-05-28
Simplicity Leads to Despotism
Russell Kirk explains the connection between ideological simplicity and despotism.
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2017-05-18
Whittaker Chambers on Writing and Inertia
By simply picking up a pen, things can be done, if we have the will to overcome inertia.
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2017-05-18
Burke on Moral Order
The awful Author of our being is the author of our place in the order of existence...
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2015-08-10
Sertillanges - What I Think
'I read, and I write while reading; but...'
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2015-01-14
A Weird "You" in Aristotle
An odd switch to the second person in a juicy Aristotle quote.
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2014-12-29
Von Hildebrand on Machine Culture
Dietrich von Hildebrand objects to the mechanization of the person.
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2014-11-07
Merton on Theology
Thomas Merton claims that theology must be based in personal relationship.
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2014-06-26
Unbelief is Disobedience
Leslie Newbigin explains the connection between faith and obedience.
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2014-06-26
Risky Love
Vladimir Lossky describes the risk involved in God's love.
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2014-06-26
Gilson on Deism
Gilson describes the 'ghost of the Christian God' found in Deism.