The City and the City

Non in dialectica complacuit Deo salvum facere populum suum

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“Those oversensitive consciences that cannot adequately distinguish between speaking an unpleasant truth and kicking a puppy”

March 9th, 2009
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If you have access to New Blackfriars’ back issues online, it’s worth reading David Bentley Hart’s response to the “critical responses” to The Beauty of the Infinite.
In response to criticism of the tone of the work:
“I do, of course, regret those moments when my tone becomes “wearing.” But, if I may be frank, what I […]

My Book of the Church’s Year

March 8th, 2009
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A delightful children’s book on the liturgical year, by the Anglo-Catholic artist Enid Chadwick.

Evolution and the Fall

March 6th, 2009
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I agree with Ezekiel that the primary problem evolution poses for Christianity is what to do about the Fall. It’s an issue I’ve though a bit about without coming to any firm conclusion.
There is something which slightly bothers me about Ezekiel’s description of the “mythological escape” which sees the evolutionary process as itself a product […]

Searching fixed

February 12th, 2009
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I just discovered that if you search for something that isn’t there on our blog, you got an extremely inappropriate message left by the designer of the theme. Apologies for anyone that happened to!

“That sounds like Taoism or something”

February 10th, 2009
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I was reading a book yesterday (G.J. McAleer’s Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Anti-totalitarian Theory of the Body) and a (non-Christian) friend asked me what it was about. I said it was about St. Thomas’s theory of matter and its relevance to sexual ethics and political philosophy. She asked what […]