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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Category: Reviews
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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Developments in Jewish Religion immediately before the Incarnation
Philip Jenkins has produced an interesting work, Crucible of Faith: The Ancient Revolution that Made our Modern Religious World, Basic Books, NY (2017) His thesis is that: “So much of what we think […]
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Review: The Rise of the Occult, Slaying Dragons II
Review: Charles D. Fraune, Slaying Dragons II: The Rise of the Occult, Slaying Dragons Press, 2023, 355 pp. including references This is a good book, and an opportune one at […]
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