Anthony Esolen
G.K. Chesterton said, at the end of his fine biography The Dumb Ox, that
Thomas Aquinas ought to be called “Saint Thomas of the Creation.” That
is because Thomas defended the integrity, the beauty, the
intelligibility, and the real and not notional existence of things, good
old created things, fire and flood, flowers and grass, birds […]
Joseph Woodard
Christopher Dawson’s prophetic The Making of Europe (1932) ends where
the Gentle Reader might expect such a book to begin. Dawson begins his
history in the third century, with the Diocletian restoration and
persecution, then traces the twilight of Late Antiquity, the many
migratory shocks, and finally the eight century recovery under
Charlemagne. It ends […]
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