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Friday, February 17, 2017

Combatting Demons and Journalists

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While watching President Trump joyfully stick it to the media yesterday, it occurred to me that he is literally fighting with demons -- or a...
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Thursday, February 16, 2017

How to Create and Maintain Your Own Psychic Imprisonment

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The Devil Card, writes Tomberg , shows how "beings can forfeit their freedom and become slaves of a monstrous entity which makes them d...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

The Leftist's Prayer: Give Me Freedom From My Demons -- But Not Yet!

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Time only for a brief post. Busy day ahead. In connection with our discussion of satan, I reread the chapter on the devil card in Meditatio...
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Monday, February 13, 2017

Leftists aren't Evil -- Only Demon Possessed

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In a previously unpublished letter, Schuon writes that "It makes no sense to believe in the devil and then each time, when he appears -...
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Friday, February 10, 2017

Organic Religiosity, with No Added Ingredients

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Awhile back an anonymous reader left the following comment and question: I agree with your assertion that deification is the purpose of ma...
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Thursday, February 09, 2017

Have You Been Truthed Today?

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To affirm that "truth is one" is not identical to saying that "there is one truth." Rather, the one truth can -- I woul...
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Monday, February 06, 2017

E Relativismi Absolutus

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We've all heard the cliché that "we are a nation of immigrants." First of all, we're a nation of settlers . The immigrants...
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Friday, February 03, 2017

In God We Trust Science (and vice versa)

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Last night the idea popped into my head that we really know nothing . Indeed, this is the stance we must adopt if it is the case that all s...
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Thursday, February 02, 2017

Pretending to Know what Can't be Known and Unknowing what Can

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Another promising book that didn't quite pan out is Aquinas and Modern Science: A New Synthesis of Faith and Reason . Nothing in it is c...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2017

When God Knocks You Over

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I need to clear the desk of books that don't merit a whole post or series of posts, but nevertheless might contain some nuggets of joy. ...
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Monday, January 30, 2017

Living in the Real Worlds

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There are always the Two Worlds alluded to in the previous post. A sane -- or let's just say rightly ordered -- person knows them as sc...
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Friday, January 27, 2017

Two Worlds are Better than One

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"Facts are fantasies." That sounds like something a postmodernist might say, but Chesterton was no such animal. Nor was he a prem...
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Thursday, January 26, 2017

A Short Post About Nothing

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I've always felt that people take elaborate vacations not so much for a change of scenery as a change of self. The novelty proceeds in ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Unlearning to Crawl

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Today's post will consist of Whatever Thoughts Occur To Me as I flip through The Tumbler of God: Chesterton as Mystic . Here is Prof. Ba...
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Monday, January 23, 2017

"Open" Thread ("Updated")

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I expect normal blogging to resume tomorrow. Meanwhile, an open thread. Feel free to toss out ideas for topics and directions. As things s...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Homo-Drama and the Broad Way of History

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We are discussing the importance of Frames. Without a frame of some sort -- a container -- you can't see much of anything. Arguably you...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

God was Framed

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This thought first occurred to me in reading Michael Polanyi's Meaning , back in the 1980s. In it there is a chapter on how art of any ...
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