Philip Blosser
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: Professor
- Location: Vista della Montagna : La Carolina Del nord : United States
- Wishlist
About Me
I am currently Professor of Philosophy at Lenoir-Rhyne College. I am married and the father of five children -- four sons and one daughter.
All of the phone numbers have fallen out of your address book. Whose number do you look for first and why?
God's hotline number, 1-800-GET-WISE, to ask Him what I did to deserve such a blessing.
Interests
- The salvation of our souls
- the Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman
- Catholic Tradition
- C.S. Lewis
- Waugh
- Belloc
- Chesterton
- Shakespeare
- Japanese and Indian and Italian cuisine
- MacCallan single malts
- Guinness
- the cause for the canonization of Tomas de Torquemada
- and an exhilarating and bracing Catholic orthodoxy.
Favorite Movies
- The Lord of the Rings
- Brideshead Revisited
- As Good As It Gets
- Mission
- Tombstone
- The-Good-the-Bad-and-the-Ugly
- The Sound of Music
- Il Postino
- Cinema Paradiso
- Tango
- The Seven Samurai
- Ran
- American Splendor
- Anchors Aweigh
- Chariots of Fire.
Favorite Music
- Gregorian Chant
- Renaissance Polyphony
- Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus
- " Allegri's "Miserere
- " Vivaldi's "Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera
- " Schubert's "Deutche Messe
- " Palestrina
- Chopin
- Puccini
- Verdi
- Bach
- Beethoven
- and Brahms
- Handel
- Rachmaninoff
- The Beatles
- Bob Marley
- The Gipsy Kings
- Deep Forest.
Favorite Books
- THE BIBLE
- Augustine's CONFESSIONS
- Aquinas' SUMMAE
- Cardinal Newman's ESSAY
- Abraham Kuyper's LECTURES ON CALVINISM
- J. Gresham Machen's CHRISTIANITY AND LIBERALISM
- Thomas Merton's SEVEN STORY MOUNTAIN
- Etienne Gilson's works
- Herman Dooyeweerd's NEW CRITIQUE OF THEORETICAL THOUGHT
- Max Scheler's RESSENTIMENT
- Thomas Howard's CHANCE OR THE DANCE?
- Peter Kreeft's works
- Louis Bouyer's SPIRIT AND FORMS OF PROTESTANTISM
- Klaus Gamber's REFORM OF THE ROMAN LITURGY
- Evelyn Waugh's BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
- Walker Percy's LOVE IN THE RUINS.
