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From C.S. Lewis’ Preface to the english translation of Athanasius’ On the Incarnation “There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books. Thus I have found as a tutor in English Literature that…

From E.L. Mascall’s Christ, the Christian, and the Church: A Study of the Incarnation and Its Consequences (pp. 92-93) 1. First, we must recognize the essential union of the Person of God the Father with the Person of God the Son within the life of the triune Godhead, a union through which the Son, who…

A university is a society for the pursuit of learning. As students, you will be expected to make yourselves, or to start making yourselves, into what the Middle Ages called clerks: into philosophers, scientists, scholars, critics, or historians. And at first sight this seems to be an odd thing to do during a great war.…