The esteemed
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf kindly calls
his readers’ attention to By
Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment,
my new book co-written with Joseph Bessette.
Fr. Z writes:
Anything written by Edward Feser is
reliable and worth time… This is a good book for the strong reader, student of
Catholic moral and social teaching, seminarians and clerics.
Excellent!
ReplyDeleteTypo alert:
ReplyDeleteProfessor, I just notice that you have the first Vatican Council lasting 101 years: On page 97 at the beginning of chapter 2, you have
The First Vatican Council (1869-1970) teaches:
Why, that's even longer than the Council of Basel! :-)
Speaking of typos, the Unmoved Mover part of one of the earlier chapters in The Last Superstition has a sentence that seems to need tente word "through" instead of "though" (I'm reading it on e-book so I can't find the page number). But Dr Feser can find it easily by word-search on the manuscript he has on a computer somewhere:
ReplyDelete"Similarly, should you see (though a hole in a fence say) a paint brush coating the fence with paint, and ask what is causing you to do so, the answer 'the brush handle' will not explain anything, since a brush handle has no independent power of movement."