Understanding (gnosis) vs. Knowledge (episteme)

"Attention has been drawn to similarities with the dialectical contemplation of beauty in the Symposium and the dialectical contemplation of the good in Republic. Are they the same process? According to Gerson, Harris, Robin (188-89) and White, the ideas of beauty and good in the Symposium are not identical, but are rather two distinct realities. …

John Stubbs, Janet Smith

This signature on each soul may be a product of heredity and environment, but that only means that heredity and environment are among the instruments whereby God creates a soul. I am considering not how, but why, He makes each soul unique. If He had no use for all these differences, I do not see …

Shall Love Alone Have no Right of Self-defence?

It would surely be even more of a contradiction to have love without hate. Love must surely, if it do no more, at least hate hatred. If there are forces poisoning and destroying love, shall love alone have no right of self-defence? The truth is that we can generally distinguish positive and passionate love from …

Truer than Death

“A pugnacious little paper in Fleet Street made a remark which has always hovered in my memory…The writer said that any man who believes in the Resurrection is bound to believe also in the story of Aladdin in the "Arabian Nights".….But the comparison between the Gospel miracle, and the Arabian fairytale is about the most …