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Religion, violence and Roger Scruton.(Gentle Regrets)
ROGER SCRUTON'S autobiography is called Gentle Regrets. His Prospect article last August responding to Christopher Hitchens and Co might well have been called "Gentle Remonstrances". It's true that in one place he so far loses patience with his adversary as to call God is Not Great a "relentlessly one-sided diatribe", but that's about as rough as the language gets: otherwise he is scrupulously polite to Hitchens, who he describes as "an intelligent and widely read man".
With the title "The Sacred and the Human", the article itself contains much of interest to those of moderate secular views like myself, who wish Western civilisation well, and who fear for its ...
- ROGER SCRUTON'S ENGLAND: ELEGY OR WARNING?(Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review REDMOND, ROBERT S. February 1, 2001 700+ words
ENGLAND -- An Elegy. Roger Scruton. Chatto & Windus. [pound...hope England still lives, but Roger Scruton tells a sorry tale. He starts...English who set the standards. Roger Scruton goes on to describe the English...
- Roger Scruton on terrorism and political correctness. (Reviews).(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Pires-O'Brien, Joaquina April 1, 2003 700+ words
...Globalisation and the Termrist Threat. Roger Scruton. Continuum. [pounds sterling]12...book, aimed at the general public, Roger Scruton dissects the various elements that...noticeable because of globalisation. Roger Scruton shows that there are references to...
- Roger Scruton, Norman Stone and Jonathan Clark
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London June 30, 1994 700+ words
...followed) the collapse of the Soviet empire. We have been asked to make it clear that it was not intended to ascribe to Roger Scruton, Norman Stone or Jonathan Clark the extreme and provocative views expressed by the fictional Dr Scrustone (writing in the...
- Conservative hacking. (editorial).(journalists Roger Scruton and Janet...
- Magazine article from: Arena Magazine Scanlon, Chris October 1, 2002 700+ words
Conservative hacks are having a hard time of it at the moment. Take, for example, the case of Roger Scruton the English conservative moral philosopher and columnist. Earlier this year it came to light that Scruton was being paid by a...
- "To blame religion for the wars conducted in its name is like blaming love for...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Neuhaus, Richard John December 1, 2008 700+ words
"To blame religion for the wars conducted in its name is like blaming love for the Trojan War," writes Roger Scruton of Oxford University and the Institute for Psychological Studies in Washington. The book is Religion and the American Future...
- An inward turn.(books, arts & manners)(Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a...
- Magazine article from: National Review Kimball, Roger March 27, 2006 700+ words
Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life, by Roger Scruton (Continuum, 256...Review know of Roger Scruton, the English philosopher...who emerges from Gentle Regrets, Scruton's wistful...battles recalled, Roger Scruton the public personage...
- Recovering the holy.(Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Modern Age Faulkner, Steve September 22, 2006 700+ words
Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life, by Roger Scruton, London and New York: Continuum International, 2006...for the good, the true, and the beautiful. His book Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life is a clear, engaging, and often...
- Gentle Regrets: thoughts from a life.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Hunter, Ian June 1, 2007 700+ words
Gentle Regrets Thoughts from a life WRITTEN BY Roger Scruton PUBLISHED BY Continuum International Publishing Group...in short compass, that is the story of his life. In Gentle Regrets, Scruton provides glimpses--autobiographical excursions...
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