In honor of St. Justin the Philosopher’s feast day today, I wanted to ruminate on the difference between two types of Christianity. The difference, as I will put it, is that between grammarians and philosophers.
I draw the distinction this way. A grammarian is concerned with texts, propositions, logic, doctrinal formulas, systems, and canons. [...]
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Christians: Grammarians or Philosophers?
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Conservative Syllabus
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As a mirror to yesterday’s “Conservative Index” of the 19th and 20th centuries’ ten “most harmful” books, I present here an unscholarly list, in rough chronological order, of conservative must-reads of the 17th through 20th centuries taken from a survey of online conservative reading lists. (I’ve provided links to online texts. The rest can [...]
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