Month: May 2020
O’Donovan on the Secular
This pairs very well with yesterday’s excerpt from Dawson. From Desire of the Nations:
Christopher Dawson on Bourgeois Culture
From “The Significance of Bolshevism” (written in 1933): Man cannot live in a spiritual void; he needs some fixed social standards and some absolute intellectual principles. Bolshevism at least replaces the spiritual anarchy of bourgeois society by a rigid order...
Should Religious Conservatives Aspire to Notoriety?
As I was publishing my notes on the First Things story, Rod Dreher was typing up another set of thoughts on the matter. Attempting to keep up with Rod is a perilous thing, of course, especially when one has small children...
What Can and Can’t Be Said About “First Things”
The takes on Rusty Reno’s leadership of First Things are beginning to multiply in the aftermath of a very bad couple of months for the magazine’s editor-in-chief. Rod Dreher’s is the best. Helen Andrews’ is an exercise in moral relativism. Jonathan...
Gutierrez Against the Doctrine of the Two
Gutierrez in A Theology of Liberation: The model which distinguishes faith and temporal realities, Church and world, leads to the perception of two missions in the church and to a sharp differentiation between the roles of the priest and the lay...
O’Donovan on Reading
Our moment is starved for this sort of intellectual spirit: