Pascal is unique: he was both the most modern and the most Christian spirit of his time. His exceptionally sharp logic and clear insight met with passionate and profound religiosity. He was the clearest mind that his homeland ever gave to the world, and he was the finest soul anatomist of his century: beside him, Descartes seems like a mere...
The 17th century was still capable of transforming science and philosophy into stimulants. Its sole desire was to turn life into enjoyment, to arrange paradise here on Earth. They wanted to savor life without paying its price. They sought to enjoy the fruits of wealth without the toil of labor, the dazzling brilliance of social power without its...
In the Age of Enlightenment, the dictators of progress sat on the throne, seeing their vocation as making the backward humanity happy.
After his death, the emperor's magical figure rose in a new light. They forgot the tyrant and his destructive will, the insatiable lust for power that cost two million lives, and the unyielding spirit of the barracks. He was remembered as a fervent advocate of democracy and progress, his fabulous victories, his wisdom that opened paths for all...
Hitler read Chamberlain's biography of Wagner thoughtfully. The impact of Houston Stewart Chamberlain is frequently highlighted in historical accounts. His work The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, which presents a racial theory that the author himself did not regard as scientific but more as a product of his intuition, is often discussed....
The earliest evidence of the name "Israel" appears in the so-called "Merneptah Stele" (Egypt, Thebes, 1219 BCE). According to this, Israel is not a country or a city but a people. The Biblical portrayal of Israel is far from uniform. The patriarchal narratives in the Book of Genesis unfold a long migration of a family. In the Book of Joshua,...
Miraculous healings no longer present any particular difficulty. Natural miracles, however, belong to a different category. If we believe that Christ truly possessed the power of God, then there is nothing surprising about His miracles bearing witness to creative power. If we do not believe that the power of God was manifested in Him, we are forced...
In terms of the historical authenticity of the New Testament, miracles present the primary difficulty. The credibility of these stories is a matter for historical proof.