Articles in English
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Human depravity is at once the most empirically verifiable reality (see G. K. Chesterton, Ortodoxy, second chapter – my note, M. C.), but also the most philosophically resistant. (Malcolm Muggeridge cited in Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith, Zondervan, 2000, p. 152)
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The essential difference between Christian and Pagan ascetism lies in the fact that Paganism in renouncing pleasure, gives up something which it does not think desirable; wheareas Christianity in giving up pleasure gives up something which it thinks is very desirable indeed. There is a frenzy in Christian ascetism; its follies and renunciations are like…
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A must read book: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (Editors: Denis R. Alexander, Ronald L. Numbers, The University of Chicago Press, 2010) Contents Introduction Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers chapter 1. The cultural authority of natural history in early modern Europe Peter Harrison chapter 2. Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century…
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What do you expect to find after the Resting Day passed? When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the…
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