Feb
13
Determinism is Dead
February 13, 2007 | 18 Comments
Stephen Barr is probably my favorite science writer these days: he is both an authority in theoretical particle physics at the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware, and an orthodox Roman Catholic who believes, as do I, that science and religion are not only compatible in the sense that they do not contradict [...]
Feb
5
Students for a Dainty Society
February 5, 2007 | 6 Comments
When I was a young college punk at Kent State University way back in the 1970s, the SDS had already sunk into irrelevance, but they at least tried to keep up appearances of being tough, staging loud and boisterous protests around the campus in which ragged jeans, dirty T-shirts, and very long hair (hey, it [...]
Feb
3
Interlude
February 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment
One day when I was in graduate school I was walking across campus with a fellow student when we ran into another student who had gone to high school with my friend. They started chatting, catching up, and my friend’s friend asked her what classes she was taking. Among the ones she mentioned was the [...]
Feb
3
Dr. William Tighe on the 39 Articles
February 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment
There a very interesting historically-oriented discussion of the viability of the 39 Articles for Anglicans today over at Pontifications by Dr. William J. Tighe. It’s a good thing that Dr. Tighe is writing for Pontifications, seeing as how Fr. Kimel no longer exists (if he ever did).
Feb
2
Is One One or More Than One?
February 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
If you can even understand that question, you’re already ahead of me. I pose it more as an introduction to a distinction between Plato and Aristotle that will ultimately affect how we view the difference between, say, Maximus the Confessor and Gregory of Palamas, in their account of the nature of God.
For Plato (and later, [...]
Feb
1
The Irony of the Particular
February 1, 2007 | 1 Comment
Once a semester there was a “dies academicus,” when professors from every faculty appeared before the students of the entire university, making possible a genuine experience of “universitas”: The reality that despite our specializations which at times make it difficult to communicate with each other, we made up a whole, working in everything on the [...]
