Month: January 2017
The Need to be Outside Christianity
Vanauken: Davy and I, we later decided, were immeasurably helped in our serious look at Christianity by where we considered ourselves to be: we did not at all suppose that we were Christians, just because we were more or less...
Happiness Drives Sacrifice
Calvin on the relationship between human happiness and worship: Until men feel that they owe everything to God, that they are cherished by his paternal care, and that he is the author of all their blessings, so that nought is...
The Sense of Ownership is Always to be Encouraged
Lewis, writing as Screwtape, on the question of how one uses “their” time:
Sertillanges on the Intellectual Virtues
Sertillanges explains why virtue and scholarship cannot be separated:
The Future is Least Like Eternity
CSL in Screwtape writing about the relationship between vice and obsession with the future:
Sertillanges on the Amateur Scholar
This is good for those of us who aspire to doing intellectual work outside of the academy or the world of “professional intellectuals”: