Adam Balshan

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Adam is Currently Reading

Adam Balshan is currently reading

Christianity at the Crossroads: How the Second Century Shaped the Future of the Church

by Michael J. Kruger

bookshelves: church-history, currently-reading, ecclesiology

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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

by Philip Zaleski (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: inklings, biography, currently-reading

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read in October 2019

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Adam Balshan said: " 3 stars [Biography]
(W: 3.25, U: 3, T: 2.5)
Exact rating: 2.92
#22 in genre, out of 28

A decent Biography of Thought on four of the main Inklings. Anyone looking for more than passing information on Barfield or Williams: this fulfills that aim.

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Nov 09, 2020 10:23PM · see review

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Sauron Defeated: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Four (The History of Middle-earth, #9)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

bookshelves: currently-reading, inklings

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Adam’s Quotes

“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ”
― Thomas Sowell

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“Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth
And what flies up, though it be but a spark,
Shall have weight.”
― Pindar

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“Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”
― Igor Shafarevich

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“The first prerequisite of the serious historical researcher must be the ability to jettison dearly held interpretations in the face of the recalcitrance of the evidence.”
― Richard J. Evans, In Defense of History

tags: historiography, history

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“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

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