August 2011
12 posts
The Triumph of the Eye - Ralph C. Wood →
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Ralph Wood on beauty in its truest sense, beauty as seen through the eyes, not by the eyes, i.e. vision as opposed to sight.
“But for catholic doubters, God is not subject to my doubts. Rather, like the movements of a lament psalm, all of the scandalizing, unbelievable aspects of an inscrutable God are the *target* of my doubts—but the catholic doubter would never dream that this is occasion for revising the faith, cutting it down to the measure of what I can live with. It’s not a matter of coming up with a Gospel I can live with; it’s a matter of learning to live with all of the scandal of the Gospel—and that can take a lifetime. Graham Greene’s “whiskey priest” doesn’t for a moment think that the church should revise its doctrine and standards in order to make him feel comfortable about his fornication—even if he might lament what seems to be a denial of some feature of his humannness. All of his doubts and suspicion and resistance are not skeptical gambits that set him off in search of a liberal Christianity he can live with; they are, instead, features of a life of sanctification, or lack thereof. And no one is surprised by that. The prayer of the doubter is not, “Lord I believe, conform to the measure of my unbelief,” but rather: “Lord I believe, *help* thou my unbelief.”
—Jamie Smith (via wesleyhill)
2011 Conference Recordings →
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The Society for Classical LearningShared by David Little
John Seel, Ken Myers, Christian Kopff, and more.
“Although doctors are aware that they practice an art that is just one of many useful arts for man, they are often tempted to tell people how to live, as if the good life could be reduced to the healthy life.”
—Allan Bloom, “The Ladder of Love”
The New Atlantis » Locke, Darwin, and America's Future →
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Peter Augustine Lawler
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
—G. K. Chesterton (via bookworm73)
List: Dante Alighieri’s Google+ Circles by Cara Pacifico and Meron Langsner
Virtuous Heathens
The Lustful
The Gluttonous
The Avaricious
The Wrathful
The Heretics
The Violent
Panderers and Seducers
Thieves
Hypocrites
The Traitors
Friends
Family (Descended from Ancient Romans)
Family (In Laws)
Acquaintances
Work
Literary Buddies
Beatrice
Venetians
Literary Critics
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