http://www.foothills.wjduquette.com/blog/archives/1291 This and that, now and then. Mostly book reviews, with the occasional descent into whimsy Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:58:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 http://www.foothills.wjduquette.com/blog/archives/1291#comment-90947 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:23:17 +0000 http://www.foothills.wjduquette.com/blog/archives/1291#comment-90947 [...] Then I noticed that several of the bloggers I was reading, notably Mark Shea and Tom of Disputations, quoted Aquinas (and Chesterton!) from time to time, and not just as an interesting nugget but in the heat of argument. (It was also at about this time that I read Mark’s By What Authority and Peter Kreeft’s Back to Virtue.) It also began to seem to me that they had deeper wells of argument to draw from than many of the other bloggers I was reading, that they were standing on deeper and firmer intellectual foundations. What were those foundations? Where did they come from? And for the first time I really came face-to-face with the intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism. [...] […] Then I noticed that several of the bloggers I was reading, notably Mark Shea and Tom of Disputations, quoted Aquinas (and Chesterton!) from time to time, and not just as an interesting nugget but in the heat of argument. (It was also at about this time that I read Mark’s By What Authority and Peter Kreeft’s Back to Virtue.) It also began to seem to me that they had deeper wells of argument to draw from than many of the other bloggers I was reading, that they were standing on deeper and firmer intellectual foundations. What were those foundations? Where did they come from? And for the first time I really came face-to-face with the intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism. […]

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