Andrew at Bound by Gravity had a post the other day that I should have responded to by now. I don't know if I'll get to it before the end of the week, but I will get to it. In the meantime, I offer a link to Peter Kreeft's website. Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and a Catholic apologist. He is a fan of C.S. Lewis, and not a bad writer in his own right. He offers extensive but accessible Arguments for God. I like the Argument from First Cause, and the Argument from Conscience. I also find the Argument from Desire compelling, but it is a very personal type of proof. Just a little something to chew on, that's all.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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