Book Review: Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition by David Bakan
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
– Ephesians 5:11
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Book Download: English Literature: A Survey and A Commentary by Brother Leo
The soul, the mind, needs food and exercise just as the body does; but the food of the mind is not bread, and its exercise is not games. It feeds on visions of truth and beauty as supplied by the master word artists in literature; its exercise is to wrestle with ideas enshrined in noble books, even as Jacob wrestled all the night with the angel; and its reward is, like Jacob’s, to receive a joyful blessing at the dawn.
Via Veritas: Why Tolkien Triumphed Where Lucas Failed
“Even if Epictetus did see the way clearly, he only told men: ‘You are on the wrong track.’ He shows us that there is another, but he does not lead us there. The right way is to want what God wants. Christ alone leads to it. Via veritas…”
– Blaise Pascal (Pensées, fragment 466)
Book Review: The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order by Otto Von Simson
“Against the darkness of the interior, the windows are in effect grey or black, and one must go inside the church and turn round in order to see the fire of the glass catch alight; the outside is here sacrificed to the inside. Why?
Perhaps, Durtal answered himself, it’s a symbol of the soul illuminated in its innermost places, an allegory of the spiritual life…”
– J.K. Huysmans, The Cathedral
Book Review: Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson
“If I lose myself, I save myself!”
– Galahad
(HG 178)
Book Review of A History of Philosophy, Vol. I: Greece and Rome by Fr. Fredrick Copleston, S.J.
“And a vision was shewed to Paul in the night, which was a man of Macedonia standing and beseeching him, and saying: Pass over into Macedonia, and help us.”
– Acts 16:9
Book Review: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God by Jean Leclercq, O.S.B.
“The love of God is honourable wisdom.”
– Ecclesiasticus 1:14
Book Review: Philothea or An Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
“But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.”
– Romans 6:22
Book Review of A History of Philosophy, Vol. II: Medieval Philosophy, from Augustine to Duns Scotus by Fr. Fredrick Copleston, S.J.
“Christians believed first of all, and only afterwards, in the desire to defend, to explain and to understand what they believed, did they develop theology, and in a subordination to philosophy, theology.”
– Fr. Copleston, S.J