The previous post concluded by finding that if “mere” Christianity means merely what all or almost all who call themselves Christians have believed, there is nothing left of it. Lewis’s book would seem to be demolished. But it isn’t. It is a great book.
One of the twentieth century’s greatest defenses of the Christian faith is C.S.
The other day, one of my students suggested that there is no such thing a morality, because to be moral is to be unselfish, and even so-called moral behavior is really selfish at the core. His example was that even a martyr isn’t acting morally, because he gains something by dying for others.
I closed the last post with a question: Having abandoned the vision on which the medieval university was built, what are modern universities organized around? The answer is “Nothing in particular.”
A recent Wall Street Journal article by Richard Vedder and Christopher Denhart concludes, “Many poorly endowed and undistinguished schools may bite the dust, but America flourished when buggy manufacturers went bankrupt thanks to the automobile. The cleansing would be good for a higher education system still tied to its medieval origins – and f
Last week I was telling the Original Visitor about –
The Original Visitor: Hello. I’m back.
Last week I told about my conversation with Standish Wanhope (of course that's not his real name), my table mate at the opening dinner of a conference, who had pushed his atheism so aggressively throughout the meal.
People speak so much more preposterously in real life than in fiction. I used to write fictional dialogues for college students. Though I presented the dialogues as fictional, most were at least influenced by actual conversations, and a few of them were very nearly transcripts.