Bruce Charlton's Notions

A hobbit in a library... I have often wondered how many people read the Prologue: concerning Hobbits , which comes before Chapter 1 of The L...

Chapter 1: [1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2] The same was in the beginning with God. [...

  The power of television advertising for my generation can be seen by the associations it makes.  The River Tyne (which runs just a mile an...

The collected letters of CS Lewis , edited by Walter Hooper, are in three volumes - and the first two volumes - which span from Lewis's ...

Francis Berger is himself a Roman Catholic - but his most recent post - which is a point by point response to a Bishop's call for Catho...

Lying is evil. But there is an 'obvious' way that lying is pragmatically evil; and this should not be confused with an 'absolut...

Although the specific meanings of life are specific to specific persons (each in their specific situation) - there is a metaphysical level o...

Here comes a big generalization...  We can divide a long and archetypal human life into three phases of 1. childhood, followed by 2. single ...

Blogger "seriouslypleasedropit" has joined-together the textual clues , and came up with what seems like the true explanation (sli...

In this stage of human consciousness; we create reality by choice. The choice is inescapable - although it can be (usually is) denied.  Thus...

Plenty of secular people on the Right can diagnose the ills of our civilization, that is - The West, but can offer nothing constructive as a...

It seems to me that Christian churches and denominations are getting less and less important - and individual serious self-identified Christ...

I do a comparison of the movie, radio drama and audiobook versions over at the Notion Club Papers blog - and a clear winner emerges. 

Which is worse - racism, or antiracism?  Not a difficult question really - although almost everybody gets it wrong.  Racism isn't a sin ...

A lot of people expend a lot of energy trying to prove that electric cars don't work and can't work as a means of mass transportatio...

The idea that Christians not only can but should absorb their faith (absorb from authoritative sources, of course - which begs the question ...

Whereas the inducements of Hell are easily appreciated - otherwise there would not be so many who choose it; the appeal of Heaven has been p...

At one point I used to take for granted that there was a big occult element in National Socialism - that they used magic, Hitler searched fo...

A theme I encounter again and again (both among Christians, and as part of the New Age) is something I term nostalgia for the Intellectual S...

I would still recommend watching at least nine episodes of the Netflix Norwegian series of Ragnarok - for its impressive depiction of the m...

Theoretically, there are an unbounded number of potential possibilities for someone who chooses Not to follow Jesus Christ.  To a certain k...