In his very first sentence Denys Turner professor of historical theology at Yale University tells us that in his portrait of that most Catholic of Catholic philosopher-theologians St Thomas Aquinas 1225-74 ldquo I have not until undertaking this work given more careful consideration to an i
In April 1938 the British writer Stephen Spender sent a letter to George Orwell asking how Orwell could justify attacking Spender for his politics and then mdash after the two writers had met mdash changing his attitude and treating Spender in a more amicable and generous manner Orwell responded w
A new Darwin indeed one who does a better job of explaining who and what we are than even Sigmund Freud Someone who offers a key to all the mythologies And even in this age of secular modernity one who offers an intellectual synthesis that actually holds faith reason and science together That
In December 1944 as winter arrived across bomb-ravaged Europe the Allied armies striving to crush Hitler rsquo s monstrous war machine had cause for optimism Though bloody and chaotic the D-Day invasion six months earlier had been a success American and British troops were advancing through Fran
This short book makes available for the first time in English a series of articles in French compiled in 1958 by Albert Camus from his writings on Algeria from 1939 to 1958 Camus was born and raised in Algeria a pied noir a member of the minority European community his family of humble backgroun
Edna O rsquo Brien had a dream In it she is a very young girl on her way to school when she trips and falls on the road gashing her forehead open Out spills her brain which becomes a spinning top that passers-by young and old dance and trample upon Reality for O rsquo Brien has proved far les