The Happy Fault

Luther assented to the happy fault only occasionally. The best is from a table-talk: "If God should be asked at the last judgment, 'Why did you permit Adam to fall?' And [God] answered, 'In order that my goodness toward the human race might be understood when I gave my Son for the salvation of the world" (Luther's Works, vol. 54, pp. 385-66; trans. altered).

Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky

Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky

Just completed this New Year's day the new Wendell Berry essay collection "Citizenship Papers". If you haven't read Berry, now is the time. His theories regarding agrarian economies and the importance of local, small communities, is essential. His prose is to die for. Therefore his novels are gems as well.

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

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Find yourself a copy of this book as soon as possible. Matt recommended it the other day in a phone conversation, and it is fun reading (if a bit romanticized) but helpful in its Thomistic preparations for authentic intellectual pursuits.

Dorothy L Sayers

The Dorothy L Sayers Society

I used one of my Barnes & Noble christmas gift cards to purchase the first of Dorothy Sayer's Peter Whimsey mysteries, "Whose Body," and enjoyed dipping back into a genre I rarely read. I think I'm addicted enough to read the other seven or eight in the series.

Dorothy Sayers is well known also as Christian theologian and student of doctrine. Two questions: What is it that draws (apparently) people to pursue these two craft simultaneously, theology and mystery novel composition? I'm thinking of G.K. Chesterton as my other example. If indeed this a common type of wedding of writerly vocations, can anyone suggest other names.