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In the 19th century, following the Enlightenment, the process of secularization seemed to be on a slow but unstoppable roll. One consequence of this was the development of a view of history, whereby religion in general, Christianity in particular, and above all the Roman Catholic church, assumed the rôle of the enemy of all progress, and prog
I was a bit frightened of reading a paper by Michael Dummett on “The Intelligibility of Eucharistic Doctrine”. Sir Michael Dummett (1925–2011) was a good man who gave up years of his life in the 1960s to combating racism, and he was remarkably clever, “one of the most important philosophers of the English-speaking world in the second half of the 20th century”, in the words of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.