Tag: Theology
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Josef Pieper, A Brief Reading on the Virtues of the Human Heart
I’m not a fan of most modern philosophy. No one ever seems to just come out and say what they mean, instead burying their points in a mass of verbiage so difficult to penetrate that when you do, it’s inevitably a disappointment. More, they seem to have forgotten the fundamental duty of philosophy, to inform how […]
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whither can I flee from thy presence?
Reading in the Psalms yesterday, I was struck by the resonances between Psalm 138 and Anselm’s project in the Proslogion and Cur Deus Homo. My read of Anselm here is shaped heavily by Burcht Pranger’s interpretation of the saint’s thought. Not coincidentally, I recently attended a lecture by Prof. Pranger on Anselm, thus these ideas were percolating […]
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Letters to a Diminished Church, Dorothy Sayers
I enjoy Dorothy Sayers and think she’s underrated as a thinker, though I haven’t read all that much. Her suggestions in her article on the Trivium have always struck me as eminently reasonable. Anyway, this is a collection of her essays. Within she offers a number of wonderful insights and images, this is my favorite: But, […]
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I place before my inward eyes myself with all that I am–my body, soul, and all my powers–and I gather round me all the creatures which God ever created in heaven, on earth, and in all the elements, each one severally with its name, whether birds of the air, beasts of the forest, fishes of […]
Dan Yingst 