by Kevin Bauder | Sep 27, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, C. S. Lewis
“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.” –C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress (p. 123).
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 27, 2016 | Conservatism, World Events
George Nash is probably the most important historian of American Conservatism. He retraces the history of conservatism and contrasts it with populism at the New Criterion.
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 26, 2016 | Apologetics, Bauder's Reading, C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis regularly argued that naturalism is self-defeating. On a naturalistic account, reasons are only accidental because beliefs are caused. Here is a version of the argument from his allegorical autobiography. =============================================== IN...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 26, 2016 | Conservatism, Pastoral Theology, Theology
At least according to Peter Kwasniewski over at The Imaginative Conservative.
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 26, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis puts the following words in the mouth of Mr. Enlightenment: Hypothesis, my dear young friend, establishes itself by a cumulative process: or, to use popular language, if you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific...