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A while back I wrote a speculative post for the Nicene Guys about the possibility of infant salvation. The point of the post was that many people--Catholic and Protestant alike, and the detractors of both in common especially--have this idea that all unbaptized infants must be hell-bound. Some have speculated on the existence of Limbo: Dante, for example,... Read More
Saint Catherine of Siena wrote:
"So that you receive the whole Divine Essence in that most sweet Sacrament concealed under the whiteness of bread; for as the sun cannot be divided into light, heat, and color, the whole of God and the whole o... Read More
I've read a few works of both Catholic apologetics and Protestant polemics against the Church, and while I haven't read every (or anywhere near most of) work out there from either side, what I have read has a distinct pattern. Both sides will appeal to the Bible in making their case. The Protestants will then appeal to each other with occasional citations of Saint Augustine, and sometimes will engage actual Catholic thinkers. Catholics will engage the Protestant thinkers with at least as much vi... Read More
The quickest way to end a dialogue (or a debate) is to take a cynical approach to it. Unfortunately, many a conversation is killed by cynicism before it ever starts: it's much easier to talk than to listen, and easier still to mock. Mockery without sympathy or the respect to listen tends to cause any conversation to devolve into hurling proof-texts, exchanging insults, and a sharing of barbed invective between both parties. Alas, it is always easier to throw rocks than to build a house--let alon... Read More
In his Ten Philosophical Mistakes, Professor Adler makes a distinction between "happiness" and "contentment." He suggests that happiness is a thing attained only by a life "well-lived," meaning one which is lived virtuously (at the very least) to its end: a person has had a happy life only after dying well. Contentment, on the other hand, is the transient property that a person is satisfied at any given moment, and can change from moment to moment. A contented person has everything he thinks... Read More
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