A Book Review . . . More Than One Valuable Resource Among Many
By JAMES BARESEL Probes: Deep Sea Diving into Saint John’s Gospel, by Peter Kreeft. (Ignatius: 2019). Order at Ignatius.com. One of the most effective methods of indoctrination used by teachers, professors, and leaders of study groups is one which purports to ask students to “think for themselves” while in reality directing them to think on the basis of presuppositions which are merely taken for granted, as though not in need of justification let alone open to debate. The result is that the students, regardless of the questions they give to the questions they are asked, are formed in a habit of mind which assumes the truth of the presuppositions on the basis of which they were asked to think. So,…Continue Reading