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Humanist Europe
I have tried several times on this blog to express political views, and – as would be expected – they were not always well received. I came from a Tory-voting family, but one with moderate and tolerant views. You don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, England, Enlightenment, Europe, Humanism, Liberalism, Medieval Catholicism, Mystery of Evil, Philosophy, Politics, Renaissance, Romanticism
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Cosmopolitanism Revisited
I often meet people whose experience is restricted to their immediate community, their homes, families, places of work, everything that is familiar. They might go on a package tour or a cruise to an exotic place, but strictly as a … Continue reading
Transcendence, Truth and Reality: A Mathematician’s Fumble
This article was intended for the Christmas issue of the Blue Flower which never appeared. Fr Munn has been invited to be an Author on this blog which will take the place of the review. I’m not a mathematician myself, … Continue reading
Christian Romanticism for the 2020’s
I have several times mentioned an important distinction between the Romantic movement per se which extended from the mid eighteenth century to about the same point in the nineteenth. Its causes are found in the Enlightenment and man’s quest for … Continue reading
A New Purpose
Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking about this blog, and wondered (I was not alone) whether I was just going through a bout of winter blues and writer’s block. Should I begin a new blog, concentrate on … Continue reading
Stoicism, Competitiveness, Dominance and Aggression
I have just been reading Red Dreher’s Manhood As Mental Disorder. When I started reading it, my first thought was “more of the same” from the growing swing back to Hitler’s Ubermensch and the New Soviet Man away from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism / Liberalism, Moral questions, Mystery of Evil, Philosophy, Reflections
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For, lo, the winter is past
But the winter is still with us. It is nearly three weeks since the Solstice, but the weather is mild and damp rather than freezing cold like in some parts of the world. The spring of 2019 will bring us … Continue reading
This Blog’s Future
I began this blog six years ago, in January 2012 at a time when The Anglo-Catholic blog had no more use for me and I deleted The English Catholic. I think many of us remember the turmoil and the clash … Continue reading
Conservatives and Liberals
I have just been reading the highly astute posting of Fr Jonathan Munn Blogday 2018: Oh! Grow up! Schoolmasters usually have experience in the shortcomings of human nature among children and adolescents who often find excuses to cover laziness and other … Continue reading
Midnight Mass
Here’s my chapel and Crib at this most magical feast of the liturgical calendar. CHRISTE, Redemptor omnium, ex Patre, Patris unice, solus ante principium natus ineffabiliter,1 JESU, the Father’s only Son, whose death for all redemption won, before the worlds, … Continue reading
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