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« Reply #680 on: May 28, 2011, 07:12:PM » |
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1. E. J. Lemmon, Beginning Logic (to sharpen my mind for serious philosophical study)
2. Peter J. Kreeft, Catholic Christianity (recommended to me by my confessor a few weeks ago)
3. G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (in preparation for Orthodoxy)
Still planning an in-depth study of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, but I want to finish the Lemmon book before I dive into that...
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joelkurtzhalts
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« Reply #681 on: May 28, 2011, 07:53:PM » |
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1. E. J. Lemmon, Beginning Logic (to sharpen my mind for serious philosophical study)
2. Peter J. Kreeft, Catholic Christianity (recommended to me by my confessor a few weeks ago)
3. G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (in preparation for Orthodoxy)
Still planning an in-depth study of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, but I want to finish the Lemmon book before I dive into that...
if your studying Plato and Aristotle, a good intro book for major ideas is in Retrieving the Ancients by David Roochnik. give it a look/shot. |
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« Reply #682 on: May 31, 2011, 10:28:PM » |
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From the "what did you order" thread: I just ordered this because I saw it on this thread and I use PowerPoint for many hours every day. Tufte is kind of an ass but his theories are useful in moderation. This essay is actually an excerpt from one of his books. Just arrived today. I'll report back. |
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« Reply #683 on: May 31, 2011, 10:52:PM » |
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 Great quick and informative read by Michael Davies |
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"Nothing is more miserable than those people who never failed to attack their own salvation. When there was need to observe the Law, they trampled it under foot. Now that the Law has ceased to bind, they obstinately strive to observe it. What could be more pitiable that those who provoke God not only by transgressing the Law but also by keeping it? But at any rate the Jews say that they, too, adore God. God forbid that I say that. No Jew adores God! Who say so? The Son of God say so. For he said: "If you were to know my Father, you would also know me. But you neither know me nor do you know my Father". Could I produce a witness more trustworthy than the Son of God?" St. John Chrysostom Sunday Homily
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« Reply #684 on: June 01, 2011, 05:34:AM » |
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I've nearly finished G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. I'll probably finish it within the next two hours. Then I'm going to start reading Evelyn Waugh's Bridehead Revisited.
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« Reply #685 on: June 01, 2011, 07:26:AM » |
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Teeth of the Tiger, by Tom Clancy
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« Reply #686 on: June 01, 2011, 07:55:AM » |
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I've nearly finished G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. I'll probably finish it within the next two hours. Then I'm going to start reading Evelyn Waugh's Bridehead Revisited.
I love Brideshead. Read Vile Bodies too, it's very funny (and not bitter-sweet). |
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“I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.” - Flannery O'Connor
Then again I asked him, "supposing the Pope looked up and saw a cloud and said 'It's going to rain', would that be bound to happen?"
"Oh, yes, Father."
"But supposing it didn't?"
He thought a moment and said, "I suppose it would be sort of raining spiritually, only we were too sinful to see it."
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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« Reply #687 on: June 01, 2011, 12:48:PM » |
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I've nearly finished G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy. I'll probably finish it within the next two hours. Then I'm going to start reading Evelyn Waugh's Bridehead Revisited.
I love Brideshead. Read Vile Bodies too, it's very funny (and not bitter-sweet). Agreed on Brideshead. It's one of my absolute favorite novels. And if you like both of those, read Handful of Dust. It's a wonderfully wicked little book, biting in the way that only Waugh can be. |
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More an antique Roman than an Anglican.
"Sero Te amavi, Pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova. Sero Te amavi!"-Confessions, X.27
"The Christians of Carthage have an excellent name for the sacraments, when they say that baptism is nothing else than 'Salvation,' and the sacrament of the Body of Christ nothing else than 'Life.'"
--St. Augustine, De peccatorum meritis et remissione, et de baptismo parvulorum ad Marcellinum, I.34
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« Reply #688 on: June 01, 2011, 09:42:PM » |
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I just finished Chesterton's Orthodoxy and will probably soon start on his The Man Who Was Thursday.
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« Reply #689 on: June 02, 2011, 07:46:AM » |
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1. E. J. Lemmon, Beginning Logic (to sharpen my mind for serious philosophical study)
2. Peter J. Kreeft, Catholic Christianity (recommended to me by my confessor a few weeks ago)
3. G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (in preparation for Orthodoxy)
Still planning an in-depth study of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, but I want to finish the Lemmon book before I dive into that...
For Aquinas, may I suggest the shorter versions of the Summa Theologica edited by Peter Kreeft? They are geared towards the student and have very helpful footnotes. Plus, both his Summa of the Summa (the long version) and his A Shorter Summa currently 20% off at Ignatius Press (both print and ebook versions). |
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"And so, Lord, do you, who do give understanding to faith, give me, so far as you knowest it to be profitable, to understand that you are as we believe; and that you are that which we believe." -- St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)
"But Christianity preaches an obviously unattractive idea, such as original sin; but when we wait for its results, they are pathos and brotherhood, and a thunder of laughter and pity; for only with original sin we can at once pity the beggar and distrust the king." -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Baudelaire and Verbal Kint from The Usual Suspects
"I'm a practicing Catholic; I'm practicing until I get it right." Martin Sheen
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