Dionysius the Areopagite is an overlooked figure in the contemporary Maronite tradition, yet we have an Anaphora of Dionysius the Areopagite in our patriarchal collection of Syriac anaphoras. It is […]
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Category: Reviews
Marty Makary, “Blind Spots”
Marty Makary, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets it Wrong and what it Means for our Health, Bloomsbury, NY, 2024 (265 pp.) The thesis of this book is that the practice of […]
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“The Grand Miracle,” C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis wrote many remarkable books and papers. My own view, is that his Christian apologetic essays are the best, followed by his academic writing on literature, and then his […]
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Blosius: Meditation
The edition of his writing which I use is A Book of Spiritual Instruction (Institutio Spiritualis),Ludovicus Blosius, trans. Bertrand A. Wilberforce, ed. A Benedictine of Stanbrook Abbey, Burns & Oates, London, […]
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Review, Wolfgang Smith, “Vedanta in Light of Christian Wisdom”
Review, Wolfgang Smith, Vedanta in the Light of Christian Wisdom, Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation, 2022, 100 pages plus postscript, glossary, and index There are some extraordinary insights in this book. The […]
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Sidney H. Griffith, “Faith Adoring the Mystery”
Sidney H. Griffith, ‘Faith Adoring the Mystery’: Reading the Bible with St Ephraem the Syrian, Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, 2001 (56 pp.) This is splendid little book was first delivered […]
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Aging with Grace, David Snowdon, review
Aging with Grace: The Nun Study and the Science of Old Age. How we Can all Live Longer, Healthier and more Vital Lives, David Snowdon, Fourth Estate, London (237 pp. […]
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Sagovsky on Tyrrell (Second and Final Part)
One of the criticisms Tyrrell made about other people is precisely what I would say about him: that he could “define a mystery” but so far as I can see, […]
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Sagovsky on Tyrrell (Part One)
Nicholas Sagovsky is a distinguished member of the Church of England. Since 1992, he has been a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC). I recently read his biography […]
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Review, Wolfgang Smith, “Theistic Evolution: The Teilhardian Heresy”
Review, Wolfgang Smith, Theistic Evolution: The Teilhardian Heresy, Angelico Press/Sophia Perennis, 248pp. plus index I was wondering about Teilhard de Chardin’s pervasive influence on the modern Catholic Church, or perhaps […]
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