Tag Archives: Philosophy

Freedom and Tyranny

Posted on Friday, 27 November, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I find this lecture very powerful in the effort to affirm our individual freedom as opposed to being the property of the totalitarian state or other group of dominant dogs. I recommend listening to it with attention. An essential condition … Continue reading →

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Insanae et vanae curae

Posted on Sunday, 18 October, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYK5JHgRnA Insanae et vanae curae invadunt mentes nostras,saepe furore replent corda, privata spe.Quid prodest, O mortalis, conari pro mundanis,si coelos negligas?Sunt fausta tibi cuncta, si Deus est pro te. Frantic and futile anxieties invade our minds; they oftenfill our hearts … Continue reading →

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Modernity and Christianity

Posted on Tuesday, 13 October, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

THREE things today ring the alarm bells in my mind as I try to understand a civilisation from which I am about as distant as a monk! I always receive Dr William Tighe’s e-mails with frequently interesting links. The two … Continue reading →

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Alan Watts

Posted on Saturday, 26 September, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

YouTube has an uncanny ability to monitor the kinds of subjects that are of interest to us and suggest relevant videos to watch. I have developed a prudent interest in Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, two men of the “greatest … Continue reading →

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Liminality

Posted on Tuesday, 8 September, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have found references in several places to an article written by a Franciscan friar in 2007 – The Life and Death of Religious Life by Benedict Groeschel C.F.R. I was particularly impressed by the notion of liminality. There are … Continue reading →

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Optimism and Christian Humanism

Posted on Friday, 22 May, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is not an easy time for either optimism or humanism when considering the depths of depravity to which human nature can plunge (with a thought of Calvin’s complete pessimism and that of Jansenism). I came across a very interesting … Continue reading →

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Henry Chadwick on Christian Platonism

Posted on Friday, 1 May, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick
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Self Reliance

Posted on Friday, 24 April, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a theme on which I have already touched in my posting about Transcendentalism which I encountered through Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was distinguished through his Self-Reliance. It is a point that is still uppermost in my … Continue reading →

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Reilly’s Romantic Religion

Posted on Thursday, 12 March, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just begun to read R.J. Reilly’s Romantic Religion which is certain to make something I wrote with a similar title pale into insignificance. However, when I wrote Romantic Christianity, I was unaware of the existence of Reilly’s book. … Continue reading →

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Romantic and Patristic Liturgy in Louis Bouyer

Posted on Tuesday, 10 March, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The work of Louis Bouyer (1913-2004) was a unique contribution to French ressourcement theology. A convert from Lutheranism and a French Oratorian, he followed John-Henry Newman in many ways, inspired by Newman’s patristic approach rather than a slavish conversion to … Continue reading →

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