Reply #10: I'm truly not that well versed in

[Dorian Gray]

most theological study. Just primarily Roman Catholic study. I have a friend who is teaching a World Religion class at Iona College, and I saw him last night. He said that he's teaching the introductory course based on a series of tapes provided from an Ivy League school, but I'm unsure offhand what they are. I don't see him that often, but if I do I will ask.

He's working on his doctoral thesis right now. GK Chesterton. His most famous work, Orthodoxy, is a well established text. He's not so much cutting edge, so I didn't mention him. He's a pre-contemporary of CS Lewis et al. I believe, like Lewis, he converted from the Anglican Church to Catholicism, and he's very famous for his Harrumphing disposition. Seriously.

There is a show on EWTN, I believe, that has an actor dressed up as a stodgy old harrumphing British man, speaking in the Chesterton platitudes. He is one of the pre-eminent 20th century RC scholars, though.