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Category Archives: Religion and Philosophy
Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley© Peter Kreeft 1982 182 pages The scene: ….well, we’re not sure. Somewhere out in the ether. The players: C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, … Continue reading
On Love
On Love / The Course of Love / Essays on Love© 2006 Alain de Botton240 pages “The philosopher in the bedroom is as ludicrous a figure as the philosopher in the nightclub,” Alain de Botton offers in On Love, a … Continue reading
Posted in quotations, Religion and Philosophy, Reviews
Tagged Alain de Botton, quotations, relationships and people skills
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A Preface to Paradise Lost
A Preface to Paradise Lost© 1941 C.S. Lewis192 pages Although I’ve read much of C.S. Lewis, I’ve never encountered him in his chosen role as a master of English literature. I spotted some discussion about this Preface on Classical Carousel … Continue reading
CS Lewis and the Catholic Church
C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church© 2013 Joseph Pearce280 pages When C.S. Lewis began writing on Christian belief and practice in the mid-20th century, reviewers at the time took it for granted that he had joined the Catholic church, despite … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Philosophy, Reviews
Tagged biography, Catholicism, CS Lewis, Joseph Pearce
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Commandos, Inklings, and powershell
If you can’t tell, dear readers, I’m in something of a reading funk — nibbling at many books but not immersed in any. Life has gotten busy recently: I’m now officially on a transplant list, a friend was just married, … Continue reading
The way of men – pagan and Christian
Late last year I re-read Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men, written for identifying what it means to be a man, and what men need and want. Donovan argues that men are largely driven by the need for the respect … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Philosophy, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged Christianity, Of Boys and Men
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Selected quotes from Anti-Politics
“Power and authority, as substitutes for performance and rational thought, are the specters that haunt the world today. They are the ghosts of awed and superstitious yesterdays. And politics is their familiar. Politics, throughout time, has been an institutionalized denial … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, quotations, Religion and Philosophy
Tagged anarchism, quotations
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Selections from The Unbroken Thread
“The great benefit to be derived from reading pre-modern authors is to come to realise that after all we [moderns] might have been mistaken.” – C.F.J. Martin [C.S. Lewis] argued that instinct, science’s go-to answer to our central question, just … Continue reading