Category: Platonism

Platonic Cities and Animal Kingdoms: Reviews of Stephen R. L. Clark

by Andrew Kuiper Stephen R. L. Clark. Cities and Thrones and Powers: Towards a Plotinian Politics. Brooklyn: Angelico Press, 2022. 328 pp., $22.95. Stephen R. L. Clark. How the Worlds Became: Philosophy & the Oldest Stories. Brooklyn: Angelico Press, 2023. 340 pp., $19.95. There has never been a time when Plato’s dialogues lacked readers interested… Read More Platonic Cities and Animal Kingdoms: Reviews of Stephen R. L. Clark

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“The Apostle Philosophizes”: Luther and the Critique of Metaphysics in 1515-1516

by Matthew Gaetano TRF has discussed the Protestant engagement with ancient philosophy and scholasticism quite a number of times (here, here, here, here). But we have not directly discussed Martin Luther’s engagement with the question of philosophy and its study by Christians. Luther’s famous contempt for Aristotle, especially early in his reforming career, is on… Read More “The Apostle Philosophizes”: Luther and the Critique of Metaphysics in 1515-1516

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“Christianity Shrinks From No Test”: Westcott and Hort on Biblical Criticism (2)

by Joshua Shaw In another post we will look at the critical methods of these men (as well as others – Schlatter, Hodge, Bavinck, Lightfoot, etc.) in a more direct way; for now we consider it from the perspective of the last post – the relationship of man to Creation, the relationship of this world… Read More “Christianity Shrinks From No Test”: Westcott and Hort on Biblical Criticism (2)

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“Creation groaneth and travaileth together”: The Fourth Sunday after Trinity (1)

The Epistle reading in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer (see here for a nicely bound, affordable edition from Everyman) for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity is Romans 8:18-23, which reads as follows, I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed… Read More “Creation groaneth and travaileth together”: The Fourth Sunday after Trinity (1)

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Good Dreams and Better Prayers: CS Lewis and BF Westcott on Plato

by Joshua Shaw Matthew Gaetano, in a previous post, has touched on C. S. Lewis’s idea of the “good dreams” of pagans which were fulfilled in the Gospel. This post treats another Cambridge scholar writing and thinking in the same vein as Lewis. Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) was an extraordinary New Testament scholar who brought… Read More Good Dreams and Better Prayers: CS Lewis and BF Westcott on Plato

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“[His] only care was not to please”: Eusebius’s Tribute to Socrates

by Joshua Shaw When we tried in a previous series to take in Eusebius’s apologetic argument against Plato at a glance, we skipped over a few passages in the middle of Book XIII (of the Praeparatio Evangelica). In this book Eusebius is slowly building his case against Plato by thoughtfully curating passages from Socrates’s last… Read More “[His] only care was not to please”: Eusebius’s Tribute to Socrates

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