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Tag Archives: Original Sin

Newman, and Burton.

08-Jul-12

Unterhaching I found this in Burton’s commentary to his Kasidah.  The exclamation point I am sure is Burton’s.  From Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua: To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history and the many races of men, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts, and then their ways, habits, […]

On Adam and Eve.

15-Aug-11

Andrew Sullivan engages with the Adam and Eve question – whether they existed – after an NPR story on a few thoughtful evangelicals doing what thoughtful evangelicals in the end must do: repudiate Biblical literalism, and make a place in the pews for some simpler mind. All this is terribly obvious, and I was raised […]