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“Growing up loving the Bible made me apt to love other books. I don't love them in the same way I love the Bible, but a lesser love came easily. The splendor of sunlight does not take away”

Bible Readinging

Book:The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

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“Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.”

Understanding Perspective Empathy Insight

Book:The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

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“For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.”

Character Personality Habits

Book:The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

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“Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation.”

Reason Faith Polarization

Book:The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

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“Erasmus’s Bible-saturated mind. His was a mind too broad for fundamentalism, which rejects reason, and too honest for intellectualism, which rejects revelation.”

Openness Engagement Evangelism Apologetics

Book:The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

Source: The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

“Boethius moved from considering history from the actor's point of view to a "timeless" eternal view. From the divine perspective, nothing is ever utterly lost, because all of life is possessed by God in the eternal now. Though time was gnawing away at Boethius and stealing all he valued, God was beyond time and loss. Gaining this philosophical vantage allowed the last Roman to become one of the first men of the Middle Ages.”

Discipleship Prospective

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“Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.”

Technology Curiosity Theology Common Grace

Book:The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

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“Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer's pilgrims want a place of man's true home: paradise”

Heaven Discipleship Glory Of God

Book:The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

Source: The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization