The Great Forgetting and the Crisis of Modernity
Many years ago, a man, who was hiking along the arduous path of life’s journey to reach the high summit behind which the sun cast its bright…
Many years ago, a man, who was hiking along the arduous path of life’s journey to reach the high summit behind which the sun cast its bright…
It is now thirty years since Harold Ramis’s memorable Groundhog Day (1993) was released. An honor the film garnered a decade after its release was being chosen…
I At the end of a clear blue day, entwined honeysuckle & jasmine stamens lust for tasting, the hour loneliness lay open to the sky. You came…
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Anamnesis is a key feature of Platonic philosophy. It means “to remember.” Plato thought that eternal truths concerning justice, truth, and beauty were present in the human…
l’uomo nello stato bestiale ama solamente la sua salvezza (in his beastly state, man loves solely his salvation/safety)[1] In the “Of God’s Will” (De voluntate Dei) section…
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Introduction Over the course of his prodigious career, George Grant, on a number of occasions, undertook to rethink both himself and his relationship to philosophy and theology.…
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus…
At a 1932 conference on quantum mechanics it was suggested that physicists should not worry about what quantum mechanics indicates about the nature of reality and they…
Faith and Hope Discerning the nature of ultimate reality is a matter of intuition.[1] A religious experience, for instance, needs to be interpreted and understood by the…
In preparation for teaching a literature course in the 1950s, René Girard reread some of the classic novels. In the process, he realized that the novelists had…