My review: I read this book after noting that Alain de Botton is a very interesting person. He made this apparent to me in his book entitled “The Architecture of Happiness”. When I saw “Religion for Atheists” on the shelf, I just had to see what a person like Alain had to say about religion Read more
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My review: If only everybody wrote as lucidly and beautifully as Benedict. What rare qualities for an academic. His style is simply sublime, whether you agree with him or not. I, on my part, do agree with him. As benedict writes, what he is presenting in this book is his “personal search ‘for the face
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My review: I read this book just coming off reading Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua. And I’m glad I did this because otherwise I would not have been able to appreciate enough what Ian Ker is trying to convey through his work: that Newman’s theology was very influential at Vatican II and how it should still be
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My review: Boy , this guy was a master rhetorician. Woe to anybody who stood in his way. And woe to Charles Kingsley who felt the brunt of Newman’s force of reasoning. Henry Newman wrote this book in response to Kingsley’s accusations of him being a two-faced, dishonorable liar when Newman converted to the Catholic
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