Comfort and instruct the sick with Scriptural truths from Thomas Draxe's The Sick Man's Catechism.

Today's featured book was edited by J. E. Smith. Franco Burgersdijk (1590-1635) was the professor of logic and moral philosophy at the esteemed university at Leiden, and latterly professor of natural philosophy. Building on the work of both Aristotle and Peter Ramus,

Here's a new blog post that I wrote on the decline of syllogistic logic within theology and Western thought over the centuries, its value, and why we ought to bring it back.

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"By this place [Matthew 2.12], it is manifest that ofttimes dreams are sent by God, and that men when they dream are taught by God, and warned of most weighty matters."

New words I've learned from book editing this evening: "Offendicle": a cause of offense. "Hudder mudder": secrecy.

William Strong, on the Beatific Vision and what we have now: "The saints have a double right to Heaven. There is (1) jus ad rem, a right to the thing; as an Heir has to his Land in his nonage, which as yet he enjoys not, because he is not meet for it, he is not able to ...

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Bring back the syllogism! Thanks Berith Press "Nature abhors a vacuum, and at times, confident rhetoric can mask logical fallacies. When this occurs on two sides of a controversy, more heat than light is generated."

Hey sometimes it works! "Medieval doctors didn’t always prescribe what was best for an ailing patient (leeches were a popular therapy). However, a medical manuscript from the 10th Century called Bald’s Leechbook recently found in the British Library details a concoction of

Praise God, in the last few days we've received orders from four continents (North America, South America, Europe, and Oceania).

Peter Ramus on how to spot dishonest arguments: "This [crafty and secret] method then in several enunciations of one kind, being known either by there own disposition, or the disposition of the syllogism shall be observed however often the matter is clearly to be understood.

If a syllogism cannot be disproven by simple logic, then it cannot be dismissed by the most forceful rhetoric.

Got this in mail over the weekend from ⁦Berith Press⁩:

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