tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post5542209365382095352..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Religion vs. Science? Fr. Richard McBrien, Now on a Thursday Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-5403006246316671172015-05-21T17:15:47.972-04:002015-05-21T17:15:47.972-04:00Been reading Boethius' "The Consolations ...Been reading Boethius' "The Consolations of Philosophy." He writes a dialogue in which Philosophy comforts him as he awaits execution for, he says, treason, a charge he maintains is unjustly assessed against him. Boethius was a Christian, yet his great work looks to Greece and Rome (more the former) for consolation.<br /><br />This is a book that meant a great deal in Medieval Europe. Alfred the Great , Chaucer, and Elizabeth I (true founder of the Church of England) all relied on it.<br /><br />But, of course, the Puritans would have rejected it, for historical reasons. Today's modern know-nothings, desperate as they are to distance themselves from the Puritans of their imagination, ape them in their worst excesses, including failing to realize how much Christianity was influenced and affected by Greek philosophy and Greek reason. It is reason that comforts Boethius, not "faith." (He would not have understood the modern distinction between the two terms.).<br /><br />Anyway.....Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com