The Calvinist International
From Ernst Kantorowicz’s magisterial The King’s Two Bodies: Godfrey of Fontaines, a Belgian philosopher of the late thirteenth century, for example, succeeded in integrating very neatly the corpus mysticum into the Aristotelian scheme. To him the “mystical body” appeared not as a supra-natural foundation, but as a gift of nature. His major premise was that “everyone is […]
Warren Fahra meditates on the blessing of friendship for society in the case of the Inklings, and offers them as an example of what friendship can be more broadly. He says: If our encounter with the Inklings shows us anything, it must be the fresh, dynamic, creative power of friendship. Yes perhaps all the works […]
Ralph Cudworth (1617-1688) is perhaps the most famous and influential of the group of Anglican divines that scholars since the 19th century have dubbed the Cambridge Platonists. These divines were some of the first, if not the first, English philosophers to discuss and critically engage with the new philosophy of René Descartes. They were certainly attracted to […]
Anamnesis Journal yesterday published a review of Michael Sandel’s book, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. Dr. Coyle Neal writes: Sandel correctly notes that in reality, this is no solution at all. The problem is not that the market is evil per se; rather, the market operates according to its own set […]