Yesterday a great thinker passed away. William F. Buckley, Jr. was a great thinker and writer and will be missed by many. He made a splash with his book, God and Man at Yale (1951) in which he took the Ivy League school to task for straying from its original mission.Buckley was given credit, and rightly so, for making conservatism a system of ideas and promoting the idea of thinking in higher categories. His writing and thinking was marked by elements of critical thinking as was his actions as he was well known for several high profile debates. My first exposure to Buckley was reading one of his well written articles in National Review. His writing radically impacting my thinking in many ways.
My pastor has a well written account of Buckley's influence on him. Click HERE to read and enjoy it. William F. Buckley, Jr. will be hard to replace, but I am sure our Lord is up to the task!
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