And thus, for our humility, during this Lenten season of
prayer and reflection, we are offered, for our edification, a couple of smart
slaps across the face with a dead fish:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/books/review/why-priests-by-garry-wills.html?nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20130215&_r=0
As the lad said to the headmaster: "Thank you, sir; may I have another?"
Why-y, Yes, m'boy, you certainly may! Ta-ake .... that :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-best-choice-for-pope-a-nun/2013/02/15/83c8be2e-76c6-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.html?hpid=z2
Our friend and colleague Dr. Keith Massey addresses the first:
http://magnaliadei.blogspot.com/2013/02/review-of-garry-wills-why-priests.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/books/review/why-priests-by-garry-wills.html?nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20130215&_r=0
As the lad said to the headmaster: "Thank you, sir; may I have another?"
Why-y, Yes, m'boy, you certainly may! Ta-ake .... that :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-best-choice-for-pope-a-nun/2013/02/15/83c8be2e-76c6-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.html?hpid=z2
Our friend and colleague Dr. Keith Massey addresses the first:
http://magnaliadei.blogspot.com/2013/02/review-of-garry-wills-why-priests.html
[Update]
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The logician and linguistic philosopher Bertrand Russell once famously stated
that simply postulating your ontology has all the advantages of “theft over
honest toil”. As Dr Massey points
out, dismissing counterexamples out of hand is equally convenient.
We apply this technique to obtain startling new results, here:
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For those of you who, like Gary Wills, harbor doubts about
the canonicity of “Epistle to the Hebrews”, you may refresh yourselves with a document of unquestioned
authenticity, here:
~
Following the method pioneered by Wills, we here grapple
with a controversy that has plagued historians.
Did Caesar Exist?
Modern scholarship is divided. The sole evidence of his existence comes from De Bello
Gallico, an enigmatic opuscule of unknown provenance…
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