"Expanded Reason Awards"

The winners of the fifth edition of the Expanded Reason Awards were announced this week. https://t.co/KxxdenT4Tl

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) July 9, 2021

Why Do Planes Fly?

The world escapes our understanding ‘No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air - Scientific American’ https://t.co/hym8yE6VW7

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) May 27, 2021

Mary Beard, the "Academic"

Ok, I don't know quite to make of this interview with Mary Beard. Two things are striking to me.

The first is the assumption, so taken for granted that it's not even voiced, that her work is part of a political project. Her job, or part of her job, ... https://t.co/INIsg0WgxT

— PEG (@pegobry) May 20, 2021

Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research

Video: "The Byzantine #Anthropocene, the #GreatDivergence, and #GlobalHistory"
Talk for "#Climate and the Roman, Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds" @OxfordByzantine , organised by @peterfrankopan (24 March 2021)https://t.co/5B5A2ftI5t#Byzanzforschung, @imafo_oeaw, @oeaw

— J. Preiser-Kapeller (@Byzanzforscher) March 25, 2021

What a fantastic afternoon! Many thanks to all our speakers and to everyone who joined us 😀 https://t.co/HBM6q7PVJe

— Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research (@OxfordByzantine) March 24, 2021

Controversy Over the Jesus Prayer

Related Posts: Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on Prayer and The Jesus Prayer.

Is the Jesus Prayer Not a Complete Prayer? A Brief Response to Metropolitan Sotirios of Torontohttps://t.co/pxDJ4TSvaY pic.twitter.com/rJiMGz4L5M

— Mystagogy (@mystagogy1) February 3, 2021

Metropolitan Sotirios represents that overducated but unthinking hyper-rationalism that seeks to take away from tradition, rather than serving tradition. His three purposes of prayer relate to the order of intention, and do not need to be explicitly verbalized for the intentions to be present.

Regarding the name of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, both names together call to the mind the whole Trinity but the name of Jesus by itselfshould remind us of Trinity, as the Son is the Father's accomplishing of salvation for us, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Danger of a Christianity That is Only Academic

The Danger of Academic Christianity | As Christians, we sometimes become complacent and think that it is enough to possess knowledge about our faith, or to go to church regularly, or to undergo the necessary procedures https://t.co/jwztKZ9X4U pic.twitter.com/UvaoQRZCEb

— Pravmir.com (@Pravmir_English) January 10, 2021

The Cambrian Explosion

"Shhh. The geological event, well, not 'event,' as in something that happened about 541 million years ago…we don’t talk that way anymore. People may get the wrong idea. Changing the names of things helps people to think correctly. Right?" https://t.co/1JpWygmN6t @discoveryCSC

— David Klinghoffer (@d_klinghoffer) December 2, 2020

Was the Stream Recorded?

Tomorrow sees the final instalment of "With my history doctorate I became.....", featuring Dr Mark Byford of @EgonZehnder Read https://t.co/HNwO3s0X6y for info on attending. @OxUniStudents @OxfordHistory @oxbyz @OxMedStud @oxfordclassics @OU_TheoReligion @OxfordStudents

— Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research (@OxfordByzantine) November 23, 2020

Every Scholar Must Have a Library

There can be male minimalism in every other aspect but not here. A consequence of male monomainia...

The value of owning more books than you can read. I agree 100% with ⁦@nntaleb⁩ about this. And I wish my library were larger. :-) https://t.co/aKNEb7BeYi

— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) November 23, 2020

This is fantastic, true, and a complete justification of my way of life...I mean I hope I truly pursue philosophy and Christianity as a way of life. But, also, book buying. https://t.co/4WWWeJff4a

— Paul R. DeHart (@PaulRDeHart) November 23, 2020

On Plagiarism

"True scholarship owes nothing to anybody; its allegiance is to truth and to the standards of excellence, including beauty, that constitute it."https://t.co/xrbCZoVgaK

— Zena Hitz (@zenahitz) November 12, 2020

Saddest thing in the Medieval Philosophy world right now. The investigation is still under way but the available evidence is already pretty baffling. Extensive, repeated copy-pasting from many other texts without proper attribution. A basic thing we warn undergrads not to do! https://t.co/FUhPG4iHRt

— Roxane Noël (@Roxanoel) November 12, 2020

Nominalist Revealed as Serial Plagiarism https://t.co/IfRDvV2Wip

— Stephen Pimentel (@StephenPiment) November 11, 2020

I wasn’t involved in this plagiarism investigation but became aware of it after detecting apparent plagiarism of my own work in a manuscript by this scholar.

Stolen, more than words, is good will, time, & professional courtesy of editors & collaborators. https://t.co/S6S4yIu48j

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) November 11, 2020

A philosophy journal retracts three articles by a philosopher because of plagiarism, but the "current affair... extends far beyond" that one journal. https://t.co/5Ma4QBIOvP

— Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg (@DailyNousEditor) November 11, 2020

Promoting the Liberal Arts with Exaggerated Claims

.@alexsosler defends the liberal arts as intrinsic goods that order and expand our loves: “If the point of the liberal arts is the skills we develop from them, we miss the point.” https://t.co/jtUpnV6Uu3 pic.twitter.com/RFEtWFAxsz

— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) November 4, 2020

FPR

Let me offer a modest definition of what an education is for. An education assists in ordering and expanding our loves. This follows in the tradition of St. Augustine and Hugh St. of Victor up to present day with James K.A. Smith and David Brooks. The flourishing life is a life of ordered love, and education prepares and shapes such a life. It’s for a life fueled by affection creating a people “who the life they’ve made and they place they’ve made in it,” in the words of Wendell Berry.

Christian paideia does this. The liberal arts may train the intellect, but they do not by themselves, train the will, even if the state of learning before the liberal arts may influence the moral imagination.

Ars Vitae and Lost in Thought

Amanda Patchin considers what Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn’s ARS VITAE and @zenahitz’s LOST IN THOUGHT might teach us about living well in the midst of suffering and uncertainty: https://t.co/wbaWQBMVx3 pic.twitter.com/ZnQgjBQjfX

— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) October 16, 2020

UND Press: Ars Vitae by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

Princeton University Press: Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz

The State of the Modern University

The State of the Modern University@LKrauss1 and @JoshHochschild

The full exchange: https://t.co/6XxYBMHY0R pic.twitter.com/CX1PVHP8TT

— Pairagraph (@pairagraph) October 9, 2020

Sure

But what future for academic theology in an age of collapse?

"Like Narcissus, such a person can pursue the discipline of theology only to discover that they have not found God, but an image of themselves reflected in a cultural mirror."

a #mustread from @ccpecknold https://t.co/bTRRBhNRhH

— stephen brannon (@stephenbrannon_) August 27, 2020

Brian Butcher on Christian Worship

What is Christian Worship / Liturgy? Dr. Brian Butcherhttps://t.co/NpZm6g9GxD@compellingtruth @dcrump12321 @theryanstratton @aimlikeanarrow

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 16, 2020

Uniformity at the expense of diversity. Diversity a division at the expense of unity.https://t.co/BmEzgcG5Ww

Fall 2020https://t.co/i6UMdQwtNL@ikeepnoticing @themarquesito @bradsjoquist @TracyKemme @PrayForUsMary @journalisthasan @Qashakaram @PstSeunSalami @TheologyNetwork

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 15, 2020

Edward Slingerland on Chinese Philosophy

"Slingerland takes the bold step here of arguing that we should stop speaking of 'Chinese' philosophy in the first place, as the Chinese of the distant past were grappling with the same philosophical problems that face us today..." @OxUniPress https://t.co/lqcGHX3Fmv

— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) August 10, 2020

Academic Discussion of Law

Has rights talk exceeded its bounds? Is contract law bourgeois? Do we need a separate right of non-discrimination? What is legitimacy? Is international law truly law?

Some questions addressed at our launch of the Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law last week. https://t.co/HL2RJXYiV3

— John Tasioulas (@JTasioulas) July 21, 2020

Joshua Hochschild Reviews Three Books

The Intellectual Vocation

Princeton University Press: How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok

Princeton University Press Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz

Penguin Press: Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs

Libertas scholastica

Libertas scholastica is for the most part today a dead letter. What we have instead is “academic freedom.” Early 20th century scholars tried to connect the two in a grand genealogy from the libertas scholastica of the medieval universities, to...https://t.co/VfcqSy7098

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) June 11, 2020

CLJ

A True Believer?

Following upon this post; some videos which reveal Charles Taylor's attitudes towards multiculturalism, diversity, and immigration.