The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. This Weekly Sage was an audience suggestion, so thanks go to Theophilus for the inspiration! Jacques Ellul “In planning it is very difficult to distinguish clearly between […]
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Weekly Sage #23: Jacques Ellul
12 Apr 2019
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Weekly Sage #22: John Dos Passos
05 Apr 2019
John Dos Passos “’Faith’ is a big word. Lincoln wouldn’t have needed to explain it, but today it has become one of those bugle words that leave an emotional blob in the mind instead of a sharp definition. By ‘faith’ I mean today whatever conviction produces a feeling of participation in a common enterprise. When […]
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Weekly Sage #21: Francois Rabelais
29 Mar 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Francois Rabelais “Summarily exposing to you about this year what I’ve been able to extract from the authors in the field, Arab and Latin, we shall begin […]
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Weekly Sage #20: Seneca
22 Mar 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Seneca the Younger “There is no other life so free, so clean of sin, so respectful of the ways of old, as that which leaves the city […]
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Weekly Sage #19: Irving Fisher
15 Mar 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Irving Fisher “We have seen that all wealth and property imply prospective services or ‘desirable events.’ It is the desirability of these future expected services which gives […]
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Weekly Sage #18: William James
08 Mar 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. William James “It is not difficult to notice a curious unrest in the philosophic atmosphere of the time, a loosening of old landmarks, a softening of oppositions, […]
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Weekly Sage #17: Henry James
01 Mar 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Henry James “This small struggle sprang not a little, in its way, from the same impulse that had now carried him across to Notre Dame; the impulse […]
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Weekly Sage #16: Hannah Arendt
22 Feb 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Hannah Arendt “The philistine’s retirement into private life, his single-minded devotion to matters of family and career was the last, and already degenerated product of the bourgeoisie’s […]
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The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Sometimes history brings together a special combination of resources and people that form a center of intellectual influence. The Weekly Sage will occasionally consider such “Schools” together. […]
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Weekly Sage #14: Gary Becker – Chicago School
08 Feb 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Sometimes history brings together a special combination of resources and people that form a center of intellectual influence. The Weekly Sage will occasionally consider such “Schools” together. […]
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