Part two of my review of Matt Walsh’s Church of Cowards was, in parts, a meditation on Walsh’s insights. This third and final part will be more of a traditional […]
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Category: Reviews
“Church of Cowards,” Matt Walsh, Review (Pt II, “Judgment”)
This is the second of a three part review of this book. I won’t recap Part One. I will just leap into it. The book is really an essay on […]
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Church of Cowards, Matt Walsh (Review, Pt I)
Matt Walsh, Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians, Regnery Gateway, Washington DC, 2020, 184 pp. plus notes, index and biblical index. This is a strong book by […]
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Review: Taylor Marshall’s “Catholic Perspective on Paul”
Taylor Marshall’s The Catholic Perspective on Paul is a rare bird indeed: it is a solid, systematic treatment of the Apostle St Paul and his letters. It is written simply and […]
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The Necromancers, Part II
Benson developed a rather simple but, I suggest, accurate view of the relationship between will and formatory thought (to use Gurdjieff’s phrase for the lower level of mind, the one […]
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R.H. Benson, “The Necromancers,” Pt I
My own view, for what it may be worth, is that most writers who dismiss Benson’s novels out of hand have simply not read them. I have already extracted some […]
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Icons: Divine Beauty, Richard Temple
This is a very good book. It is most valuable of course, for the photographic reproductions of icons, but the text is also singularly helpful. Published in 2004 by SAQI, […]
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Words” “Aback,” “Heist,” “Helicopter”
I thought it might be worthwhile taking a few more words for research today. Aback, must mean something to do with the back. But exactly what? Already by 1944, the […]
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Review, “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (8th and final part)
Part Six: The Church and the Scrolls “Did St Paul write anything about the Church?”, Bergsma asks in chapter 14. It begins with some notes about the assumptions modern biblical […]
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Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises
I have just read the published volume, and I think it might be worthwhile to note some thoughts which have occurred to me. I shall update this page from time […]
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