Leopards break into a temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony. Who are the leopards? What is the temple? Is it a true tale? Does it represent the […]
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How the presuppositions underlying modern science cause us to claim a kind of knowing that is not warranted
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IV. Mastery, Meaning and Mystery Following the biblical narrative, the theology of the Fathers always begins with Creation. This is where their profound and crucial understanding of God begins, with the Father Almighty who is in the beginning, Maker of heaven and earth; with His Son, the Word, through whom all things were made; and
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III. Basil and the Hexaemeron Now let us turn to S. Basil and his Hexaemeron. The Hexaemeron is the title of Basil’s nine Lenten sermons on the first chapter of Genesis. Although the evidence suggests that Basil delivered these sermons extemporaneously to working men and women, the ancients regarded this as his greatest work, and
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II. Are we talking science or philosophy? Now, this argument will not impress the non-Christian or “secularized Christian” for whom science, not Holy Scripture, is the final authority and for whom Nobel prize winners, not Church Fathers, offer the best answers to the cosmogonic questions. So it is not enough for us to have a
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Before I begin part two of my discussion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, I’d like to clarify some confusion from Part I. When discussing Rousseau’s view of the evils of competition and the influence of this view on schools, I wrote these words: “And the most radical schools reject grades all together.” I had something very specific
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Few men have exerted the far-reaching influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In the eighteenth century, a time when the influence of writers dominated, Rousseau was most influential. From educational and parenting theory and moral relativism to the political theories of Marx, the rise of totalitarianism, and revolutions from France to Russia, almost every ill of the
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