Imagine yourself a starry-eyed young adult wondering what you ought to do with your life. Perhaps you take your faith seriously, and the question takes this form: “What is God’s plan for my life?” If you were able to consult St. Augustine, what would you think of his advice: “Love, and do what you will”?1 Is […]
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About 25 years before writing Till We Have Faces, an unconverted C.S. Lewis met with J.R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson for dinner in his rooms at Magdalen College, followed by a stroll together on Addison’s Walk. He recounted this conversation later in a letter to Arthur Greeves. Tolkien and Dyson had helped Lewis to see […]
In 350 B.C., Aristotle wrote On the Heavens, a work in which he laid down his geocentric view of the universe. Earth was at the center, and everything else orbited around it. For roughly 1,800 years, astronomers tried to understand the motion of the stars and planets in the night sky using Aristotle’s view, and […]
Dr. Loren Eiseley, the former Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, once wrote: “…we must also observe that in one of those strange permutations of which history yields occasional rare examples, it is the Christian world which finally gave birth in a clear, articulate fashion to the […]
Atheism, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, Existence of God, Frederick Copleston
The Most Famous Debate on the Existence of God
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An excellent article on one of the great modern philosophical events: On January 28, 1948, the BBC brought together two of the century’s brightest minds for a radio debate about the existence of God. To be sure, the debaters were not just lightweight showboats, blowing off steam. The two men represented the cream of the intellectual crop. Bertrand […]