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Google and a God Named Theuth
From Michael Harris’s The End of Absence: In Plato’s Phaedrus, we hear Socrates describing how a king from Egypt called Thamus informed the god Theuth that the phonetic alphabet was not so great a gift. The god was particularly chuffed … Continue reading
Augustine and the Compelling Character of God
From Book One of Henry Chadwick’s translation of Augustine’s Confessions: Who then are you, my God? What, I ask, but God who is Lord? For ‘who is the Lord by the Lord,’ or ‘who is God but our God?’ Most … Continue reading
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