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“For with you is the fountain of life, and in your light we see light” (Psalm 36:10).
The Cosmopolitan Club of Huntington, Indiana, was chartered 130 years ago, on January 18, 1894, which makes it one of the oldest extant discussion societies in the country. The papers delivered by its members range from the mundane to the divine, the sublime to the ridiculous, but every one is thought-provoking.
For a recent paper, one member took the first item of the Rotary Club’s famous Four-Way Test (“of the things we think, say or do”) as a starting point. “Is it the TRUTH?” implicitly assumes that there is such a thing as truth (and not just because Rotary invariably presents the word in ALL CAPS) and that it is something that we can know. Yet, as Tom Mills, the author of the paper, pointed out, even all of us who believe that truth exists and that we can know it may have different ideas of how we come to know the truth, and those ideas inevitably affect what we think the truth is.
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The Cosmopolitan Club of Huntington, Indiana, was chartered 130 years ago, on January 18, 1894, which makes it one of the oldest extant discussion societies in the country. The papers delivered by its members range from the mundane to the divine, the sublime to the ridiculous, but every one is thought-provoking.
For a recent paper, one member took the first item of the Rotary Club’s famous Four-Way Test (“of the things we think, say or do”) as a starting point. “Is it the TRUTH?” implicitly assumes that there is such a thing as truth (and not just because Rotary invariably presents the word in ALL CAPS) and that it is something that we can know. Yet, as Tom Mills, the author of the paper, pointed out, even all of us who believe that truth exists and that we can know it may have different ideas of how we come to know the truth, and those ideas inevitably affect what we think the truth is.
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The Church Fathers: Exposing truth from the inside out
As the Rotary Club’s famous Four-Way Test puts it, we should ask, of whatever we think, say or do, is it the truth? But is our understanding of truth implicitly blinkered by modern rationalism? OSV publisher Scott P. Richert argues that reading the Church Fathers can help us break out of the...
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