Review, Slaying Dragons: What Exorcists See & What We Should Know, Charles Fraune, 2nd edition, Slaying Dragons Press, 2019, 172 pp, plus additional material Note: I discussed the contents of […]
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Review: “Slaying Dragons” by Charles D. Fraune
The material in this essay is being published prior to a review of Slaying Dragons: What Exorcists See & What We Should Know, Charles Fraune, 2nd edition, Slaying Dragons Press, […]
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Review, G.K. Chesterton, Theologian (Part 3)
Chapter 3 of Nichols’ study of Chesterton is titled “The Discovery of Metaphysical Realism.” Now, if we were speaking of “realism” alone, we would mean an “interest in or concern […]
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R.H. Benson’s “Non-Catholic Denominations” (Pt III)
{The full text of this book is available at https://archive.org/stream/tnoncatholicdenom00bensuoft/tnoncatholicdenom00bensuoft_djvu.txt} Chapter 3 of R.H. Benson’s Non-Catholic Denominations is applied to a certain type of Anglican which he calls, collectively, the […]
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Review: Walker, “Why We Sleep”
Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, Penguin, 2017 (342 pp. plus end material including index) This is a valuable book: it is the best […]
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R.H. Benson, “Non-Catholic Denominations”
In 1910, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson published an interesting but under-rated book, Non Catholic Denominations (Longmans, Green and Co., London). This text is available at https://archive.org/stream/tnoncatholicdenom00bensuoft/tnoncatholicdenom00bensuoft_djvu.txt I think that people […]
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G.K. Chesterton, Theologian (Pt II)
Having said something about Chesterton, in the first part of this review, it is time to turn to the book. It is arranged in nine chapters with a conclusion: first, […]
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Review of “G.K. Chesterton” Theologian” by Aidan Nichols (Part One)
Aidan Nichols, G.K. Chesterton, Theologian, Darton, Longman and Todd, London (209 pp. bibliography but no index) This is the first part of a multi-part series. I am going to first […]
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“A Time to Keep Silence,” by Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Time to Keep Silence, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Queen Anne Press, 1953 (reprinted with additions, Penguin, 1982) This is Fermor’s account of his visit to two monasteries, and one burial […]
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Fairbairn, The Typology of Scripture
In 1845, Patrick Fairbairn, Professor of Divinity at the Free Church College, Glasgow, published a massive two-volume work, The Typology of Scripture Viewed in Connection with the Whole Series of […]
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