Category: Reviews

Chapter 6 of G.K. Chesterton: Theologian is headed “Man in the Image of God.” Nichols states that creation of man in the image of God is the “foundational doctrine of […]

Even if I am quite sceptical of her conclusion,  Claude Boueiz Kanaan’s Lebanon 1860-1960: A Century of Myth and Politics, published by SAQI in 2005 presents some interesting ideas about […]

In this part, we look at chapter V, “The God of Joy.” According to Nichols, Chesterton effectively produced a new argument for the existence of God: we feel or can […]

Yesterday (1 July 2021, the Feast of Pope Gregory X), I received a copy of St Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on Samson, trans. Dana Miller, edited with notes and an […]

The fourth chapter of Aidan Nichols’ G.K. Chesterton, Theologian is headed “The Role of Paradox.” Now, the word “paradox” comes from the Greek paradoxos, meaning “contrary to expectation, incredible.” However, […]

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 […]

{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 […]