tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post3087218688681313762..comments2024-03-28T16:16:51.062-04:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Francis Schaeffer listened to Pink Floyd? Timothy Leary, Eric Clapton, and Keith Richards read or studied with him??Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-4918189964857227042016-09-13T20:49:58.158-04:002016-09-13T20:49:58.158-04:00Micky Jagg ...
No question the Catholic intellect...Micky Jagg ...<br /><br />No question the Catholic intellectuals are the ones of that period most worth reading -- not only theologians like Garrigou-Lagrange, but essayists like Chesterton, Belloc, Elliot, Shaw, and churchmen like Msgr. Ronald Knox and Cardinal Newman, and novelists like Waugh and O'Connor.<br /><br />Still, Lewis isn't bad for an accessible introduction to intellectual Christian thought for English speakers. Schaeffer was a very simple writer, a sort of populist 'Christian philosopher', whom Bp Fulton Sheen occasionally praised; but he succeeded in engaging some great minds simply because he took them seriously. His appeal was his willingness to put his life on the line, so to speak. If he was watching a movie and felt the director copped out morally, he would stand up in the middle of the theater and yell: "He CHEATED! He CHEATED!"<br />Pertinacious Papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213911570586726075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-6133198370539282642016-09-13T16:07:24.253-04:002016-09-13T16:07:24.253-04:00Bishop Fulton Sheen was on the cover of Time in th...Bishop Fulton Sheen was on the cover of Time in the Fiddys but, he was Catholic, so he isn't considered an intellectual.<br /><br />I've never read anything by Mr. Schaeffer, I was too busy reading Sheen's "Life of Christ" and while Americans were being told to read Lewis and Niebuhr, they were studiously kept ignorant of Garrigou-Lagrange.<br /><br />A protestant nation, whose discourse is controlled by Messias-Deniers is left to shift for its self and so the Domestic Church MUST tell its members about Catholic intellectuals worth reading.Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.com