tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864209521536699332.post7532134999925239531..comments2023-05-09T04:27:27.901-07:00Comments on The Girl Who Was Saturday: My Reason Tells Me ...TGWWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13727516543273059122noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864209521536699332.post-55561398048271034152012-01-27T16:27:15.887-08:002012-01-27T16:27:15.887-08:00Yes, St. Thomas (whose feast is tomorrow!) certain...Yes, St. Thomas (whose feast is tomorrow!) certainly came to mind as did Dante.Jacob X. Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14219622046003751582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864209521536699332.post-89740677093453016262012-01-27T06:31:19.517-08:002012-01-27T06:31:19.517-08:00Mm. Yes, you have a point about PIT. The only th...Mm. Yes, you have a point about PIT. The only thing I'd say, is that while many Protestant theologians didn't quite get the relation between reason and feeling right, that was not (I think) the fault of Protestantism so much as it was the fault of the age, and one of Protestantism's causes.<br /><br />As for the Victorians ... ! The funny thing is that they were both horribly TGWWShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600123603258365909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864209521536699332.post-4420557185353447632012-01-27T01:11:52.535-08:002012-01-27T01:11:52.535-08:00Three words: Protestant intellectual tradition.
I...Three words: Protestant intellectual tradition.<br /><br />I really think that reason got a bad rap in G.B. in part because for a few centuries it was made to uphold some slightly odd beliefs and pretty petty conventions. <br /><br />Remember in Paradise Lost, Milton essentially claims that the first sin was lust? Consider also the strictures against women in English society from Cromwell throughJacob X. Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14219622046003751582noreply@blogger.com