We can now take this point a stage further: in this context, that of the god-like aspirations of leadership, sin becomes incredibly attractive. In the Confessions, Augustine makes it clear in relation to a trivial act of the youthful crime…
Bestiaries are fascinating things–part fact and observation; part fiction and superstition. From Herodotus, Pliny, and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, these descriptions of animals, birds, serpents, and fanciful beasts provide a rich tapestry to understand the mind…
Cards on the table: Stephen N. Williams is a fellow Welshman whom I have known for over thirty-five years. I am still pondering a question he asked me on a visit he made to my home in 1977 when I…
Terry Eagleton’s review of Richard Dawkins’ latest book is well worth a read, demonstrating that it isn’t just orthodox Christians who struggle with RD’s portrayal of religion. TE is one of the funniest and sharpest literary critics around, a former Catholic…
Terry Eagleton’s review of Richard Dawkins’ latest book is well worth a read, demonstrating that it isn’t just orthodox Christians who struggle with RD’s portrayal of religion. TE is one of the funniest and sharpest literary critics around, a former Catholic…
Terry Eagleton’s review of Richard Dawkins’ latest book is well worth a read, demonstrating that it isn’t just orthodox Christians who struggle with RD’s portrayal of religion. TE is one of the funniest and sharpest literary critics around, a former Catholic…
Richard Dawkins will not appreciate the math, but probablitity theorists now claim that it is 62% certain that God exists, according to yesterday’s The Times. Is this where we cite the text about God “laughing”?
Absent from the blog for a few days, I missed Del Boy’s question re. Weber. First, never heard of this Carl Maria character — unless he was the guy who stood in for David Lee Roth when he left the…
Absent from the blog for a few days, I missed Del Boy’s question re. Weber. First, never heard of this Carl Maria character — unless he was the guy who stood in for David Lee Roth when he left the…
Absent from the blog for a few days, I missed Del Boy’s question re. Weber. First, never heard of this Carl Maria character — unless he was the guy who stood in for David Lee Roth when he left the…
