Category: Gilbert Chesterton
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Restoration, Revival, Renaissance
The order of these nouns is deliberate. Secular humanists desire to have the last without either of the first two, particularly and most insistently, the first. Christians are generally unconcerned or even aware of the first, & if it is brought to their attention, they become truculent. The third also escapes the notice of many…
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Mental Death
If you seek the monument to our folly, look about you. In our own day we have seen cities obliterated and ancient faiths stricken. We may well ask, in the words of Matthew, whether we are not faced with “great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world.”
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True North
“It goes without saying, that nobody initiates anybody else, if we understand by initiation the mystery of the Second Birth, the great sacrament, the initiation from above which is operative from above and has the value and duration of eternity. The Initiator is above…” Valentin Tomberg This truth is not a “Christian” truth per se,…
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Kind Hearts, & Norman Blood
Gewusst, Erkannt, Geahndet – Schelling What is now called the Christian religion already existed among the ancients, and was not lacking at the very beginnings of the human race. When Christ appeared in the flesh, the true religion already in existence received the name of Christian. ~ Augustine of Hippo So much comes back to…
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Hollywood Action Flicks
In his inimitable way, Gilbert Chesterton, in a discussion about adventure or romance novels [NOTE: not meant in the contemporary sense], anticipates the plots and defects of Hollywood action movies. The title of the essay is “The Position of Sir Walter Scott”; in this segment he compares Scott to later adventure novel authors. It is…