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« Reply #740 on: June 21, 2011, 07:14:AM » |
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Personal reading for fun and/or erudition:
Compendium of Theology by St Thomas Aquinas
Reading for university study to prepare for exams:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles on Karl Marx, the Enlightenment, Hegel, & Max Weber
Manifesto of the Co
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« Reply #741 on: June 21, 2011, 07:35:AM » |
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Personal reading for fun and/or erudition:
Compendium of Theology by St Thomas Aquinas
Reading for university study to prepare for exams:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles on Karl Marx, the Enlightenment, Hegel, & Max Weber
Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
The End of History? by Francis Fukuyama
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Remember Dear Christian, you have but one soul to save, One God to love and serve, One eternity to expect. Death will come soon, judgement will follow, and then, Heaven or Hell forever.
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« Reply #742 on: June 21, 2011, 08:21:AM » |
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Personal reading for fun and/or erudition:
Compendium of Theology by St Thomas Aquinas
Reading for university study to prepare for exams:
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles on Karl Marx, the Enlightenment, Hegel, & Max Weber
Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
The End of History? by Francis Fukuyama
We're doing Fukuyama too. Do you have Alasdair Macintyre's reply? No I don't. Is it worth reading before the exam on Thursday? |
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« Reply #743 on: June 21, 2011, 10:15:AM » |
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My reading list at the moment, in varying degrees of completion
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherejee
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Crazy Likes Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters
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Ecce ego, quia vocasti me
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« Reply #744 on: June 21, 2011, 01:03:PM » |
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Barbarian Conversion: from Paganism to Christianity. An excellent (if a bit flawed) book on the whys and hows of Western Europe becoming Christian. Very very interesting.
I have this book on my shelf, but I have not gotten to it yet. May I ask why you find it "a bit flawed"? Rejections of the historicity of the resurrection, St. Peter's papacy in Rome, and other examples. The book is written from a very secular standpoint and since any errors in it are peripheral to its overall objective, they can be easily glossed over. Despite a few objections I found the scholarship therein to be top notched and it is well written, too. |
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Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed are thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
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« Reply #745 on: June 21, 2011, 07:12:PM » |
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The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus... a novel, written in verse
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« Reply #746 on: June 21, 2011, 07:41:PM » |
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"I suppose the greatest reform of our time was that carried out by St Pius X: surpassing anything, however needed, that the Council will achieve." -- JRR Tolkien, letter to his son Michael, 1 November 1963
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« Reply #747 on: June 21, 2011, 08:59:PM » |
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"The Quantum Enigma" by Wolfgang Smith
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« Reply #748 on: June 22, 2011, 03:56:PM » |
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Barbarian Conversion: from Paganism to Christianity. An excellent (if a bit flawed) book on the whys and hows of Western Europe becoming Christian. Very very interesting.
I have this book on my shelf, but I have not gotten to it yet. May I ask why you find it "a bit flawed"? Rejections of the historicity of the resurrection, St. Peter's papacy in Rome, and other examples. The book is written from a very secular standpoint and since any errors in it are peripheral to its overall objective, they can be easily glossed over. Despite a few objections I found the scholarship therein to be top notched and it is well written, too. Thank you for the replky. I'll keep it for reference material. |
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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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« Reply #749 on: June 24, 2011, 11:13:PM » |
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Rereading this one.  For some reason I have two copies...but Amazon and Project Gutenburg have it as a free e-book too. That was a good read. I forgot to mention this when I finished - I just thought it was kinda funny that Monsignor Benson, in trying to imagine what things would be like at the end of the world, still had the Latin Mass being said and the faith was alive and well in Ireland. Even he didn't predict how bad things would get within the Church just a century later. I think he was eerily correct with his societal predictions, though. We're not there yet, but he had some great insight into where things were headed. But I don't want to spoil anything for people who haven't read it yet. |
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