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Tag Archives: history
Patriotism or Hatriotism
In commemoration of America’s celebration of Independence Day Gil Bailie posted a link on the Cornerstone Forum’s Facebook page to a book review written by Tim Rice of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, by Wilfred … Continue reading
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Tagged America, freedom, Herman Melville, history, Israel, Walter McDougall, Wilfred M. McClay
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Winners & Losers…
“There is a secret gnawing certainty that tells us that in success there is always a residue of impurity, in victory always a residue of coarseness … that there is and can be complete purity only in misfortune, and that … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Péguy, Hans Urs von Balthasar, history, winners and losers
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Pointing Beyond…
Christ’s Cross is indeed not one historical fact among others to which a natural process can more or less arbitrarily be related: it is the fundamental, ontological presupposition of all natural processes that all, knowingly or not, intrinsically signify or … Continue reading
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Tagged Cross, Hans Urs von Balthasar, history, onotology, signification
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Liberation of man…social emancipation
For those who speak of being on the right or wrong side of history — that old Hegelian-Marxist axiom — the renown French theologian has a reminder: “‘Liberation of man,’ understood as a social emancipation, is a human undertaking which, … Continue reading
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Tagged emancipation, Hegel, Henri de Lubac, history, liberation, society
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The Right Side of History
Those who prattle on about being on the right side of history are the Pied Pipers who are leading us into a post-historical and post-cultural wilderness — as the great historian Christopher Dawson saw so clearly in 1938 (just before … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Dawson, history, the Church
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