Oct
31
Faith and Reason and Belief and Unbelief
October 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Not entirely connected to my post of yesterday regarding unbelief, but Mike Liccione has a very nice post up at Sacramentum Vitae on Benedict’s Regensberg address, discussing along the way the important of reason in any viable form of theism.
Oct
31
Medieval Art in Chicaco
October 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Here is a review of a recent volume of Museum Studies, for those with interests in medieval art and culture and who can hie themselves to Chicago now and then. The review was published by The Medieval Review, a listserv subscription service out of Western Michigan.
Nielsen, Christina M., ed. Devotion & Splendor. Medieval [...]
Oct
30
Unbelief
October 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’ve just returned from a brief hiatus, off to the American Catholic Philosophical Association to give a paper on the logic of relations in Saint Anselm’s De processione Spiritus Sancti. I’d like to say that I gave the paper to a packed house, and indeed, I could say that with some truth, but it would [...]
Oct
23
Saint Augustine Against Literal Interpretation
October 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Sed verborum translatorum ambiguitates, de quibus deinceps loquendum est, non mediocrem curam industriamque desiderant. Nam in principio cavendum est ne figuratam locutionem ad litteram accipias. Et ad hoc enim pertinet quod ait apostolus: Littera occidit, spiritus autem vivificat. Cum enim figurate dictum sic accipitur tamquam proprie dictum sit, carnaliter sapitur. Neque ulla mors animae congruentius [...]
Oct
23
Shorter Lines at Communion Soon
October 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The United States Bishops are preparing a draft of a document, “Happy are Those who are Called to His Supper”, for their November meeting in Baltimore. According to this document, anyone who rejects the defined doctrines of the Church or her definitive teachings on moral issues should not receive Holy Communion (see the CNS story [...]
Oct
23
Like a Martyr
October 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The folks at NBC finally caved and have decided not to show Madonna bound to a cross and wearing a silver crown of thorns, according to a story at Catholic News Service. No doubt this will be hailed as an infringement of the First Amendment, even though the event was filmed in England where there [...]
Oct
22
Logical and Non-logical Necessity
October 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Dr. Mike Liccione of Sacramentum Vitae has a fascinating post today on modal arguments for the existence of God. He takes for his starting point a discussion at Maverick Philosopher that I can also recommend. If I thought that I could make heads or tails of either argument I would comment on them more extensively, [...]
Oct
21
Geoffrey Chaucer isn’t the only one who Hath a Blog
October 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Now Fr. Stephen Freeman has one, too. Check it out at Glory to God for All Things. Regular readers will recognize Fr. Stephen as one of the contributors at Pontifications.
Oct
21
Pontificator to become Pontifical
October 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Well, at least in the sense of being officially under the authority of the Pontiff–sorry to get folks’ hopes up like that. See his announcement at Pontifications.
Oct
21
More Thoughts on the History of Torture
October 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’ve just noticed that Mike Liccione at Sacramentum Vitae has posted some rather helpful thoughts on the same topic that I was just discussing in the previous post on Shawn McElhinney’s take on the relationship between torture and the history of the Church’s teaching. As usual Mike displays greater patience and charity than I, along [...]