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Slogging through the overly Romish stuff (celibacy of the priesthood) in order to get to Sarah's excellent analysis of culture and the need for clear opposition to the encroaching darkness of secularism.

Haunting.

Never heard of (little) Thomas Bilney before tonight's reading with the kids.

Lev wanted me to read this one out loud. So far she's hooked.

Really enjoying this one.

Sadoleto... Such an interesting cat

Really quite good so far

If nothing is self evident, nothing can be proved

But thence I learn, and find the lesson true,
Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you

Interestingly Calvin was accused of denying the Trinity because he didn't utilize the scholastic terms to define it. Sounds familiar with regard to the current Thomist controversies.

"Historically, the English language is a muddle; actually it is a beautiful, personal, and highly sensitive creature"

"on its highest level the pagan resistance can almost be identified with the neoplatonic school... The whole school.. seems to me to be also a deliberate response to the challenge of Christianity and, in that respect, indebted to it. In it the last pagans are... saying in effect, "we too have an explanation of the whole universe. We too have a systematic theology. We, no less than you, have a rule of life..."

Feels like an important book... But surely it could have been less boring.