The Weekly Wrap-Up is back! I’m summing up a very active week here at Christendom Reborn in which I discussed some of the Christian tradition’s “keepers,” in particular great books and traditional sexual morals. (Not a complete list.) Next week will be America-themed in honor of her 250th, and the week after that I’ll consider some new things that I also regard with favor.
Here’s the quick summary of how the week unfolded:
Last Sunday I reflected on fathers and divine vengeance (in that order).
Monday I laid out my “Old Things/New Things” theme and recommended a Law & Liberty forum on coping with modernity.
Tuesday I made the case for the Great Books and why we should still study them.
Wednesday I recommended a superb essay from Elizabeth Anscombe on Christian sexual ethics and why it extends to artificial contraception.
Thursday I unrolled my essay on why sex, by nature, is unsafe.
Friday featured a “from the archives” on Great Books in the Lu household. It’s a fun little piece from Education Next in which I explained how and why I read to my own kids. The major take-away is that I do, in fact, share the books with them that I myself think are most vitally important.
Stay tuned for New Things week (Rerum Novarum?) coming soon.
Closing Quote
What people are for is, we believe, like guided missiles, to home in on God, God who is the one truth it is infinitely worth knowing, the possession of which you could never get tired of, like the water which if you have you can never thirst again, because your thirst is slaked forever and always. It’s this potentiality, this incredible possibility, of the knowledge of God of such a kind as even to be sharing in his nature, which Christianity holds out to people; and because of this potentiality every life, right up to the last, must be treated as precious. Its potentialities in all things the world cares about may be slight; but there is always the possibility of what it’s for. We can’t ever know that the time of possibility of gaining eternal life is over, however old, wretched, “useless” someone has become.