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Friday, August 21, 2015

A Word to the Whys

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Yesterday we spoke of how man is orthoparadoxically characterized by what is missing in him. The primary symptom of this present absence o...
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

A Sound Mind is a Sound Cosmos

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We left off with a reminder from St. Thomas that the pursuit of wisdom is a game, and that this game -- like any game -- "is not ordere...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

The Vertical Church of Perpetual Delight

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Yesterday we mentioned the difference between the two forms of knowledge, (k) and (n). There are many ways to frame this distinction, but...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Outside the Gates of Eden

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Some time ago I minted the irritating term orthoparadox to signify the manner in which the divine reality bifurcates herebelow into seeming...
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Monday, August 17, 2015

O, Nothing in Particular

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Picking up from where we loafed off... which was wherenow? Something about whether there is actually such a thing as Man, or if man is, as ...
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Monday, August 10, 2015

Midstammer Pause

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Coming up on ten years of service, you know. Advice, feedback, criticism, recommendations, reflections, witness, testimony, ritual condemnat...
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Friday, August 07, 2015

If You Can't Correct Your Own Rotten Character, Just Fundamentally Transform the World

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Now, touching on this business of Man. You know, creating him. Frankly I don't like the term -- Man -- and not because of its andronor...
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Thursday, August 06, 2015

The Manhappen Project

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Back to our Manhappen Project, AKA how God made (and makes) Man happen. As the note in my recipe indicates, there are certain ingredients t...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2015

La Bête Divin, or Look Who's Talking

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There is a significant leap to the next stage -- speech. The unity of body and animal is broken. Something new and different has been adde...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2015

How to Make a Man

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I guess what I want to say is: think about it from God's perspective. How would you go about creating man? Which is to say, how would...
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Monday, August 03, 2015

Is Man a Thing?

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If you're going to reject Darwin's theory of how evolution came about, then you're going to have to come up with a better idea. ...
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Friday, July 31, 2015

I Married a Monkey

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One of our founding principles around here is that man is man, not an animal plus x. If anything, our closest cousins -- apes, gorillas, Cl...
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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Postmodern Calvinbrawlers

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While preparing this morning's steaming restorative, a thought popped into my head. You know Churchill's famous line about America ...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Science Wars and the Restoration of Reason

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MacIntyre imagines a scenario in which the sciences suffer the same calamity as has virtue. The schism might start with something like a s...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Conservative Exodus and Liberal Slavery

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As promised, the quest for the nonlocal Object of Virtue continues. What do you mean, "nonlocal Object of Virtue"? Well, it...
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Monday, July 27, 2015

Adamnesia and the Misplaced Object of Virtue

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Didn't care for the book overall, but the author does raise a critically important point before veering into turgid academese in order ...
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