Dorothy Sayers on Education

ShareWhew, 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, [...]

Georges Lemaître

ShareA 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 [...]

Trinity Sunday

ShareEdward Feser and Michael Flynn give a Thomistic take on the Trinity in honor of our Triune God.

Virtual Library of Christian Philosophy

ShareA collection of Christian philosophy papers hosted by Calvin College. h/t Francis Beckwith

Scott Sullivan’s Thomistic Philosophy Webpage

ShareScott 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!

The Last Superstition

ShareThis is a review of a book I received last Christmas. I greatly enjoyed it, so I hope that you all might as well. The Last Superstition A Refutation of the New Atheism  ______  By Edward Feser St. Augustine’s Press 2008 299 Pages; US$27.00 ISBN 9781587314513 Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition is a polemical work. However, this [...]