The title of this essay refers to a book I recently published, The Shape of Reality. That book is an effort to move forward in our understanding of created being, perhaps even move forward a little in our understanding of the Triune God of Jesus Christ. That book builds upon my understanding of created being, … [Read more…]
[This short essay is a lightly edited chapter from my recently released book, The Shape of Reality, a newly released and freely downloadable book. This is the concluding chapter of the last part of the book, titled What Have We Done and Where Should We Head?. The other two chapters in that last part were … [Read more…]
I have revised my book, Four Sorts of Knowledge, in a very minor way as explained in the Preface to the Third Edition: This new edition contains only minor changes to the Preface. I eliminated references to books I’d been planning on writing back in 2010 and didn’t write. The reader might be interested in … [Read more…]
It seems that every day, I read on the Internet that some of the major failures of the United States in international affairs are due to American efforts to introduce democracy in countries which are not suited for such a form of government or are not yet ready for it. There are intelligent books, thousands … [Read more…]
I have uploaded a new book which is freely downloadable here: The Shape of Reality. The preface begins: Is a man a unity or is he a collection of warring fragments? Or is the proper question perhaps my favorite: Is man some sort of complex being not describable in current terms of discourse? I should … [Read more…]
In a recent article, Sacred Music. An Appeal To Restore Hearing To the Deaf, the Italian Catholic journalist, Sandro Magister, writes of criticism by musicians and musician-scholars of the loss of tradition in the liturgical music in the Roman Catholic Church: “This disdain for Gregorian chant and traditional repertoires is one sign of a much … [Read more…]
[This essay is a lightly edited chapter from my upcoming book, The Shape of Reality, a book which should be posted on my weblog by the end of March and maybe the middle of March.] From 2006 to the present, I’ve been writing about the need to make peace with empirical reality. This is not … [Read more…]