LOGIC AND GRAMMAR C. D. Clark’s book THE ENLIGHTENMENT is devoted to the claim that the idea of The Enlightenment is a figment of the imagination of the majority of thinkers writing about Western intellectual history. He spends over 500 pages tracking the use of the term “The Enlightenment” in his book by this name,…

JESUS’ DIALOGICAL STYLE (sorry, this is a long one) I have always been fascinated by the dialogical character of Jesus’ interactions with various “interlocutors” he seems to have encountered. Alongside of his “speeches” and silences, Jesus’ sometimes participated in “give and take” with those whom he encountered along the way. I think these interchanges are…