True Grit or Phronesis and the Happy Ending
Sometime after the Civil War, likely in 1875, an Arkansas girl of 14 hires a US Marshal to pursue one Tom Chaney, the man who murdered her…
Sometime after the Civil War, likely in 1875, an Arkansas girl of 14 hires a US Marshal to pursue one Tom Chaney, the man who murdered her…
The Covenants from Abraham to David We will consider here the merits and limitations of covenantal social thinking and ask whether such ideas have relevance today. While…
Politics Reformed: The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology. Glenn A. Moots. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2010. I suspect that Glenn Moots is a great…
This excerpt is from a conversation between Eric Voegelin and graduate students following a lecture at the St. Thomas More Institute in Montreal. The participants include Winston…
The Kingdom Suffereth Violence: The Machiavelli/Erasmus/More Correspondence and Other Unpublished Documents. Philippe Bénéton. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2012. We all know the student who,…
Terrence Malick’s film, The Tree of Life (2011), is a significant cultural achievement, not only cinematically but also philosophically. Back in 1969, the philosophically inclined Malick produced…
A number of scholars whom I admire and who have been good friends to me have suggested that I would be a satisfactory respondent to another good…
Communication between human beings is the modus procedendi through which a society exists. The fact that the "Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy" are in question…
Exegesis vs. Interpretation While it may be that God is the measure of human beings, Plato is certainly the measure of anything written about God, human beings,…
The Face of God. Roger Scruton. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. The Face of God, the most recent book by the prolific English philosopher Roger Scruton,…
The wars and revolutions of the twentieth century bring to its end a period that begins with the consolidation of the Western national states in the fifteenth…