Monday, November 9, 2026

The use of "prudential" in John Wesley

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Though not every last one of the following is, the idea was to find every occurrence relevant to the concept of "the prudential means o...
Friday, October 30, 2026

"Amid billows of mysteries have I fallen"

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"This Jesus has made so many symbols | that I have fallen into the sea of them" ( trans. Sebastian Brock, The harp of the Spirit: ...
Thursday, October 29, 2026

"a fractious movement"

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      "Others draw conclusions that set them apart from Lutherans and Zwinglians as well as at odds with Anabaptists[, not to mention, ...
Sunday, October 25, 2026

'Orthodox' means orthodox in life as well as faith

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"The Creed does not speak of the struggle of faithful living. It is for this reason that genetic orthodoxy, unlike creedal [(for many a...
Thursday, October 22, 2026

Barba-Kay on "automation’s ineluctable need for [a] virtue ethics" that might call automation itself into question

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"While the story of Stanislav Petrov – the Soviet Lieutenant Colonel who likely saved the world from nuclear holocaust in 1983 – is oft...
Monday, October 12, 2026

Altars and relics

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"Thus in the train of the impious heresy of the defamers of Christians, many other impieties appeared.  Just as those heretics removed ...
Thursday, October 8, 2026

Simone Weil on (indirectly) pacifism (or, at least, the French pacifists of the 1930s)

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     "Indirect mechanism of a crime.      "My criminal error, before 1939, concerning pacifist circles and their activity, was due...