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Scientific Truth as Grounded in Faith—Part 1
“The act of faith consists essentially in knowledge and there we find its formal and specific perfection.”—Thomas Aquinas Beginning...
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A Conversation on Theodicy
The author engages himself in a conversation on the conundrum of how it can be that (a) Evil exists,...
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Dousing the Flames
How can we put social intelligence online? Poor Michael Brown. During the darkest days of the Hurricane Katrina debacle,...
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Meaning, Mystery, and Marian Art
I In her Magnificat the Blessed Virgin Mary proclaims that her name and memory will continue to be blessed...
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More on the Scientist’s Faith
This recognition will resolve what may seem like a paradox to some: that profound and creative scientific minds can...
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The Second Fundamental: Stalemates and infinite loops in a human-persuade-human world.
“You can’t change other people. All you can do is change your attitude.” People say this sort of thing...
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The Immanence of Providence’s Action within Man’s History
Vico is particularly interested in demonstrating through his science of humanity the presence of a reality, which he calls...
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What’s the worst that could happen?
That’s just the kind of question Frank Furedi tells us we’re asking too much but not asking well-enough. It...
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The Only Thing Worse Than Being Talked About
Ted Honderich and Colin McGinn, two well-known academic philosophers*, are engaged in a meaningless public feud, bringing further “glory”...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Tariq Ramadan again
New Perspectives Quarterly offers a point-counterpoint with Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Tariq Ramadan on recent examples of “Islamic justice”...
