Tag Archives: Philosophy

Stella

Posted on Friday, 1 December, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

From 1964 until 1967, I went to the local primary school, Castle Street School in Kendal. It was a run-of-the-mill nominally Anglican primary school for children of 5 to 11 years old. Pupils were prepared for the Eleven-Plus, a test … Continue reading →

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Beauty will save the world

Posted on Tuesday, 21 November, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have always been impressed by the Romanticism and idealism of Pope Benedict XVI, especially regarding the apology of Christian faith offered by beauty. The best-known quote is “I have often affirmed my conviction that the true apology of Christian … Continue reading →

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Intellectual Masturbation

Posted on Monday, 13 November, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I came across an amazing article today – The illusions of abstract philosophy: Thought is never deep. I cast my mind back to university days and my times spent with a friend of Polish origins, English education and living in … Continue reading →

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Metamodernism?

Posted on Friday, 18 August, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Whatever next? We had modernism, not only theological but also cultural and philosophical. Next we had post-modernism, a phase of relativism, nihilism and cynicism (the cost of everything but the value of nothing, to quote Oscar Wilde). Here is a talk … Continue reading →

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Dark Satanic Mills Revisited

Posted on Wednesday, 16 August, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

William Blake (1757 – 1827) was someone very enigmatic as I have already mentioned in my earlier article Dark Satanic Mills which is a quote from the famous poem Jerusalem set to music by Sir Hubert Parry. Parry seems to make … Continue reading →

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The Inkling – Beyond Romanticism

Posted on Friday, 28 July, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My spiritual life has been in quite a chaotic phase for some years, in particular after my separation a little over two years ago. That was a part of a vast overhaul of my own consciousness and Christian belief. Already, … Continue reading →

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Out of the Ashes

Posted on Tuesday, 11 July, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am gathering my thoughts in regard to seeing the modern western world as something akin to France in the wake of the Terror. The guillotine did its grisly task and the bodies of the dead are buried in the … Continue reading →

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Cancelling Humanity

Posted on Saturday, 14 January, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I came across this slightly unusual view of tradition and modernity – The problem of religious traditionalists. When I first saw the title and the first lines of the text, I thought this was an apologia for the “cancel culture” … Continue reading →

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A Third Way

Posted on Saturday, 12 November, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It proves very difficult to make any sense of the world, at least as it seems on the media and other internet sources. I live in the country and feel increasingly anxious faced with the prospect of travelling to a … Continue reading →

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Is Putin a Romantic?

Posted on Sunday, 13 March, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I found it quite difficult to recollect myself for Mass this morning as a thought kept stabbing into my mind – the similarity between Aleksandr Dugin’s ideas, representing Russian and European New-Right traditionalism and Romanticism, at least on the surface. … Continue reading →

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