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...George Santayana, a wit once said, "believes that there is no God and that Mary is His mother." Last week the suavest living philosopher further compounded the paradox. At 82, he published The Idea of Christ in the Gospels (Scribner; $2.75), probably his most important book. It is also probably the most devout book ever written by an unbeliever: it suggests that' Santayana is a far better Christian, and scarcely less orthodox, than the vast majority of believers...
With it as its end product, Santayana's six decades of philosophizing may remind Christians of those tedious scientific experiments which in the end prove something that everybody had always known...
...Santayana's position, which is essentially the necessity of illusion, will seem like a dubious, not to say mischievous, improve menton the orthodox position of the necessity for faith. Whether he has at las squeezed through the needle's eye, only a handful of scholars in the theological stratosphere can tell him, and only God knows...
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Eternal Friendship. In his refuge in the convent of the English blue nuns in Rome, where he is now finishing his autobiography and a treatise on Christ in the Gospels, and where he expects to spend the rest of his life, 81-year-old Philosopher Santayana writes...