Occupation: Professor Birth: December 17, 1923 Death: May 13, 2006
Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians..
Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remem….
The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition.
The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school..
If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters..
An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unansw….
Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of liv….
Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living..
Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the r….
Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture….
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on ….
Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely but ….