[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Xerxes and Artabanos on Life and Death.

Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post "Xerxes and Artabanos on Life and Death":

Also good is, "Do and be afraid of everything, and do not, in your considerations, give every factor equal weight. For if you gave every matter that confronts you equal weight, you would never act at all. It is better to confidently confront all eventualities and suffer half of what we dread than to fear every single event before it happens and never to suffer at all." Xerxes, Herodotus, 7.50



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[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Feeding on Words.

Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post "Feeding on Words":

I really enjoyed it. The only other Lewis biography I've read is Armand Nicoli's The Question of God, so there was much in this book that was new to me too. I used little bits and pieces of it to make observations about Till We Have Faces and Narnia since my class is reading all of them. But you're right, a biography of imagination is a strange genre.

With reference to religious language, if I'm able to finish my studies, I will be working on something related, the limitations of religious language and the "tacit component" (Polanyi). It seems to be a rather undeveloped area of theology.



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[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Feeding on Words.

Chris Trampel has left a new comment on your post "Feeding on Words":

Matt,

I just finished the Narnian and also found it enjoyable, if a bit stilted. I like Alan Jacobs but wonder if he takes himself a bit too seriously. Anyhow, he's certainly written a very careful and scholarly book. I knew nothing of Lewis' relationship with "Minto" before reading it-astonishing. I was disappointed that Jacobs didn't include more criticism of Lewis' books themselves. The material from Till We Have faces on the limits of language was a highlight for me as well. I know there is some good material on religious language out there by I haven't gotten to it yet.



Posted by Chris Trampel to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 1:48 PM