his was the dance crow had danced in youth in praise to god, for dance was his love and love the body’s hallelu— without chagrin or prevarication, this was joy joy until god fled and steps and flight movement he had not moved since his soul became still as god’s…
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The Certainty of George Weigel
by Jon Elsby 1 George Weigel is a controversial figure. A Catholic intellectual and a political and cultural conservative of a distinctively American kind, he is greatly admired by those who share his convictions and severely criticized by those who do not, including some of his co-religionists. But reactions to…
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The philosophy of Iris Murdoch
by Jon Elsby During her lifetime, Iris Murdoch was probably better known – and more highly esteemed – as a novelist than as a philosopher. Privately, Isaiah Berlin once called her ‘a lady not noted for the clarity of her ideas’.’ Yet she taught philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford…
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