Book Review: The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
“Whence comes the Innovator’s authority to pick and choose?”
– C. S. Lewis
Tag: Britain
Book Review of J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion by Richard L. Purtill
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Book Review: Lord of the World by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson
“And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world.”
– 1 John 4:3
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: Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson
“If I lose myself, I save myself!”
– Galahad
(HG 178)
Book Review of Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
“Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.”
– Jeremias 10:14
Book Review: The Love of Jesus To Penitents by Cardinal Henry Edward Manning
“He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go out no more; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.” – Apocalypse 3:12
Book Review: The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
– Luke 21:33
Book Download: The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church by Ælfric Of Eynsham
God the Father made mankind and all creatures through the Son; and again, when we were fordone, he sent that same Son for our redemption. The holy mother Mary then nourished that child with great veneration, and it waxed, as other children do, without any sin.