Monthly Archives: August 2009

William Law: A Serious Call

Flipping through “Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis” last night reminded me that I am long overdue for a promised book review.  In his letter to Mary Willis Shelburne dated June 6, 1955, Lewis says: “About prides, superiorities, and affronts there is no book better than Law’s Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life where …

August 30, 2009 – 6:10 PM | By joshua | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Christianity Is Not a Greek Philosophy

A friend is currently reading Peter Watson’s “Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud”, a book which promises to make you erudite about all of human religion, philosophy, and various “-isms”. The book plays to people’s vanities.  When humanity as a whole has arrived at no consensus about the validity of …

August 11, 2009 – 11:15 AM | By joshua | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (0)