Hermeneutics: My First Step into the Catholic Church – Part II, On Metaphysics
“The authority of holy Scripture says, on those points on which it would inform us, some things so plainly and
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Author: J.A.A. Purves
Hermeneutics: My First Step into the Catholic Church – Part I, On Preunderstanding
“Those who leave out the context really leave out the conception. They have a mysterious power of making the world
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Reflections upon Entering the Catholic Church
“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so.
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Different Sensibilities Between the Ancients and Moderns
Conceit of the present is the most deadly bondage of the human spirit. – Paul Elmer More ___________________________________________________ Towards the
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I Wonder What They DO Teach Them at These Schools?
But in general it is fair to say that few Americans now know anything about Classics and could not care
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Notes to Be Developed on Belief, Sin, and Knowledge
It is time that some confusions about what it means to know, what it means to believe, and what it
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On the “Tyranny of the Dead” Fallacy
“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in
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Restoring the Moral Imagination
The soul of a civilization may be lost at the very moment of that culture’s material triumph. In our time,
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A Tentative Outline for the “Language Argument for the Existence of God”
“Let the reader imagine for a moment that he is standing in the midst of a normal and familiar environment
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The Arts & Faith Top 25 Films on Waking Up
“My father says almost the whole world’s asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says
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