The Western Canon Can Help Us Resist the Totalitarian Temptation
C. S. Lewis offered a moral and intellectual antidote to the totalitarian temptation: a return to ancient truths to help defeat the lies of his own day, and of ours.
C. S. Lewis offered a moral and intellectual antidote to the totalitarian temptation: a return to ancient truths to help defeat the lies of his own day, and of ours.
It has passed into history as proof of Christian America’s ‘war on science.’ Less remembered is that it’s an example of Christianity standing against eugenics.
Look to Venice, once the publishing center of the world, for an early example of vigorous open discourse now being pushed aside in Europe and elsewhere.
Importantly, the Bible was Rush’s battering ram in the abolitionist cause.
J. R. R. Tolkien provided a compelling, persuasive argument for the truth of the faith, well worth remembering this Easter Sunday.