Classic Christian books in modern English with chapter summaries and discussions.
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Classic Christian books in modern English with chapter summaries and discussions.
The goal of these courses is to help students better understand and delight in Christ through Scriptural theology in the light of a careful reading of historic Christian books. “A careful reading” because we want to honor the author and his book and deal rightly with its contents (“love your neighbor as yourself”). “Scriptural theology” because our main focus at Biblearc is on studying the Bible. “To better understand and delight in” because theology should not only inform the head but affect the heart and hands.
Chapter Summary
Philosophy’s argument is that good is always powerful, and so evil is always weak. She develops this argument from two sides: First, since all people seek happiness, and only the good attain it, they alone have both will and capability to attain what they seek. Secondly, since a person who can accomplish what his nature fits him for is stronger than someone who cannot, a good man who seeks happiness the way Nature has designed, being virtuous, is stronger than the wicked, who seek it piecemeal and thus cannot find it.
She continues to support her argument with several other points: Evil people are weak, paralyzed and unable to obtain the highest goal of reality, either ignorant of the good or deliberately following vice. In fact, wicked people do not exist at all, because to do evil is to abandon one’s nature. Evil people have power only to perform evil, which cannot help you obtain the good, and so is not desirable. But since all power is desirable, power to do evil is no power at all.
About The Consolation of Philosophy
Written in the 6th-century from a prison cell as the author awaits execution for a crime he did not commit, The Consolation of Philosophy is a dialogue between Boethius and a mysterious woman—Lady Philosophy—who helps him rediscover wisdom and virtue.
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Classic Christian books in modern English with chapter summaries and discussions.
The goal of these courses is to help students better understand and delight in Christ through Scriptural theology in the light of a careful reading of historic Christian books. “A careful reading” because we want to honor the author and his book and deal rightly with its contents (“love your neighbor as yourself”). “Scriptural theology” because our main focus at Biblearc is on studying the Bible. “To better understand and delight in” because theology should not only inform the head but affect the heart and hands.
