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Book Review: “The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian” by Lloyd Alexander
John Mark Reynolds, 2004 Amazon.com: Books: The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian Today, for fun, I decided to read another Lloyd Alexander book. Most famous for the “High King” and the other adventures of an assistant pig keeper, Alexander has written this short book, a worth while stand-alone. Despite the late sixties and early seventies “rationalism”…
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Thoughts on Milton
John Mark Reynolds, 2004. Today I got to do a concluding class on Milton’s Paradise Lost. While trying to understand the work, we began to discuss Milton’s view of men and women. Milton says that women are inferior to men in intellect and morals. It reminded me of why so many people become feminists. Misogyny…
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The Spoils of Egypt…
John Mark Reynolds, 2004. I have been thinking about Chrystostom’s Sermons on the Gospel of John and on Augustine’s “On Christian Teaching.” With much groaning, I have come to repudiate liberal arts education.Augustine famously described the “liberal arts education” as using the “spoils of Egypt” for God’s use. Secular wisdom would benefit the people of…
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Forward Towards Home
John Mark Reynolds, 2004. I am with a serious group of people, who like all the Church fathers, think there was a large flood in the days of Noah. They are arguing about its size, but the agreement is broad. If they are right, then secularism is wrong. Religion is not “mere belief.” Religious texts…
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Rebuke, Repentance, and Restoration
John Mark Reynolds, 2004. What if one viewed the world through a religious framework? Not because one had to out of fear (you never know when to expect the Spanish Inquisition), but because it is interesting and after much experience of the world seems true? What if one decided that a holy book, like the…