Stories revolve around the virtues and vices of their characters because virtue is so astonishingly admirable. We are drawn to every kind of excellence unless envy interferes with our admiration. Even then, we are still drawn to the excellence. We just don’t like its carrier.
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I’ve been reading in snatches of a page or two at a time a book that fell out of heaven into my lap at the conference this summer. If you are interested in a theological and philosophical understanding of the place of rhetoric in the Christian classical tradition, I don’t think you’ll find a book more [...]
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We have received from the Enlightenment a rather boring, two-dimensional view of man. We have learned to regard ourselves in binaries such as mind/body, right brain/left brain, scientific/artistic. On a good day someone might speak of the mind and the heart, but usually by heart he means appetites or emotions, and both of those, on [...]
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Love humility as the mediating sister of all the virtues. She is our entry to all the pleasures of heaven and earth.
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