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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is the great long, English poem. It is a beautiful, penetrating, and challenging look at human nature, the relationship between God, man, and the angels, and the relationship between men and women. John Milton’s poetry evokes the powerful temptation contained in Satan’s rhetoric to make the reader experience the Fall within himself as Adam eats of the fruit. The poem reveals the stark contrast between Satan’s lies and God’s truth. We face God’s hard justice but rejoice in His mercy. We are reminded that in the midst of decay and turmoil there is hope.
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Marriage and Happiness
January 16, 2025
When we think about the American Founding, we rarely think about sex. But Thomas West points out that any serious political philosophy and every actual regime must deal with the question of sex. Why? Because sex generates children and children become citizens. The question of sex thus necessarily leads to questions of marriage and the responsibilities for nurturing and educating children. In ou...
The Fruitful Tension of Faith and Reason
January 9, 2025
“What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” wrote the theologian Tertullian enigmatically in the early 3rd century AD, alluding to the two cities respectively as emblems of reason and faith. These two distinct modes by which human beings encounter reality, he suggested, are in tension with one another. But it is a tension which Korey Maas describes as “fruitful” in lecture six of our online course, “W...
The Dramatic Form of Plato’s Philosophy
January 2, 2025
When we think of the activity of philosophy, it is likely that something very cerebral comes to mind. After all, the word means “love of wisdom,” and is not wisdom a matter of the intellect—of the mind’s hold on a set of sage tenets, the possession of which makes a person “wise”? The Russian artist Leonid Pasternak once painted a writer (see image above) with his hand pressed firmly against his...
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