Word: disputationes
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Prodigal gets off winging as fun-loving Micah (Edmund Purdom) and sober-minded brother Joram (John Dehner) come galloping hell-for-leather down the main street of Joppa; with true Hollywood ingenuity, they are using stirrups a good 600 years before they were invented. Despite his Old Testament beard and...
Bearers of the Word. In their own way, the medieval universities carried on the tradition. Like Plato's Academy, they were free "because their allegiance was to the Truth, as it was given to them to perceive it, and not to the community." Far from smothering discussion, the Christian...
It was not without considerable interest that I read Mr. Leve's recent letter to you regarding Moselle and other wines. Leve is a man of well-known connoisseurs and erudition, and I venture to suggest that he could not possibly have made some of the sweeping assertions therein attributed...
Genuine Priest. Novelist Power, 41, is not yet an expert craftsman. When he reports Father Cawder's metaphysical probings, his writing often goes dead and resembles a religious disputation more than a novel. When he should be driving his story to its climax, he lets it creep along. As...
Hutchins during his speech painted a gloomy picture of the trends of education in the past several centuries. The dominant feature of the medieval college, he said, was the disputation. The age of debate gave way to the age of discovery. Inquiry was promoted by specialization and the experimental method...