Chapter VII of Newman’s Rise and Progress of Universities is titled “Athenian Schools: Influence.” This entire post is devoted to it, because Newman makes the invaluable point that we need virtue […]
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Category: Reviews
J.H. Newman, Rise and Progress of Universities (Part I)
In 2001, Gracewing and Notre Dame jointly published Rise and Progress of Universities and Benedictine Essays, being vol. III in the Birmingham Oratory Millennium Edition of the Works of Cardinal John Henry […]
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Bennett on the Relationship between Sex and Spiritual Development (Part Five)
Bennett’s next topic was “Procreation and Parenthood”. His view of human conception is mystical and sublime: it is a cosmic process, which provides an opening for the creative force which […]
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Bennett on the Relationship between Sex and Spiritual Development (Part Four)
I wonder if the title of Bennett’s fourth chapter, “Negative Sex” may not have been influenced by Ouspensky’s idea of infra-sex (see chapter XII in A New Model of the […]
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Bennett on the Relationship between Sex and Spiritual Development (Part Two)
Bennett’s Introduction Bennett’s two page introduction to his book, Sex: the Relationship between Sex and Spiritual Development, sets the parameters of his discussion and introduces many of the key concepts. […]
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G.I. Gurdjieff Paris Meetings 1943
For anyone with an interest in Gurdjieff’s ideas, this volume is not just useful but valuable. For those attempting to put his ideas and methods into practice, it is indispensable, […]
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Amis and “A Different Christianity”
I recently came across a reference to Robin Amis’ book A Different Christianity: Early Christian Esotericism and Modern Thought, published in 1995 by the State University of New York Press. […]
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Churton, Deconstructing Gurdjieff
There is a new book, Tobias Churton’s Deconstructing Gurdjieff. I can’t pretend I think it’s worth reading. I don’t like his writnge: it’s rather a smart-aleck style – “that particular […]
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An Introduction to the Maronite Faith
Well, my eighth book has now been published, An Introduction to the Maronite Faith. Here is a link: http://www.connorcourt.com/catalog1/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=423#.WU32lIVOLIW It is, as the titles suggests, an introduction. It is not […]
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When God Spoke Greek (Part 1)
What is the history of the Bible, and how did the Church’s view of it, especially its view of the Old Testament change over its first four hundred years? Why […]
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