Whew, it has been a busy June. Here is an essay by Dorothy Sayers on education, The Lost Tools of Learning. She wrote this essay in 1947, but it still seems very timely.
Sayers bases her essay on the Trivium and the Quadrivium, the liberal learning of the Middle Ages. Respectively the subjects were Grammar, [...]
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A short piece by John Farrell, the author of The Day Without Yesterday, about the forgotten founder of modern cosmology, Georges Lemaître. Lemaître was a Belgian priest who was expert in both physics and astronomy. Lemaître reasoned that a static universe was not compatible with General Relativity, and instead proposed an expanding universe. At first [...] Edward Feser and Michael Flynn give a Thomistic take on the Trinity in honor of our Triune God. A collection of Christian philosophy papers hosted by Calvin College. Scott Sullivan is an alumnus of Holy Apostles with an MA in Philosophy. I came across this interesting work-in-progress by him on the subject of Neoplatonism in Aquinas’ thought. Pretty good stuff, and by a graduate of our program as well! This is a review of a book I received last Christmas. I greatly enjoyed it, so I hope that you all might as well. |
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