Why Miracles Are Possible: David Hume and the Reasonableness of Belief

Could it not be that the law of nature itself includes within it exceptions or deviations that seem to violate nature’s usual behavior?

Danielle D'Souza | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

Approaching a Christocentric View of Wealth

To the casual onlooker skeptical of the Catholic Church’s wealth, the concern is not how beautiful their churches are, but the cost at which they were built.

Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015

Towards a Divine Understanding of Beauty

Beauty is a question that consistently plagued some of the most influential Christian thinkers in the early centuries of the church.

Jake Casale | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014

Faith and Reason

Truth, the great 13th century philosopher Thomas Aquinas insisted, can only ever be one.

Christopher Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012

In Praise of Wonder

To believe Jesus’s words seems to simultaneously require foolishness and faith. In novelist Ron Hansen’s Mariette in Ecstasy, it’s an old and learned priest who, when asked for his opinion on a miracle, smiles and says, “I don’t believe it’s possible. I do believe it happened.”

Inez Tan | The Williams Telos | Spring 2012

Faith and Fiction

The relationship between fiction and faith has had its difficult moments. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was abolished by the Catholic Church only fifty years ago, and there were even recent stories of pastors burning Harry Potter books when the series started skyrocketing in popularity. Clearly the people instituting banned books lists and instigating book burnings believe in the capacity for fiction to corrupt. Curiously, in denouncing fiction’s potentially degrading influence, they are also acknowledging its power.

Stephen Kim | The Yale Logos | Winter 2011

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