armpittylegmiddle

Mackenzie Sue Perisho indicating
her left armpittylegmiddle.

n. popliteal fossa, ham, hough, houx, kneepit.

     Mackenzie Sue Perisho dictionary of the English language, 26 August 2021.

The birth of Quaker historical study

      "Through their opposition to the evangelicals' emphasis on the Scriptures and their savage criticism of the latter's apparent 'backsliding' into the unreformed Church, the Quietists drew attention to the divisions that existed within British Quakerism during the early part of the nineteenth century.  Subsequent historical study of this period has also emphasized these divisions and often cast evangelicalism as an invading force in British Quakerism.  This is because, as ever, history was written by the winners.  The birth of Quaker historical study coincided with the eclipse of evangelicalism within London Yearly Meeting and its replacement with a liberalism which doubted whether evangelical doctrine represented the true beliefs of Friends.  Elizabeth Isichei has identified the links that existed between the main motor of Quakers' study of their own past, the Friends Historical Society, and the rise of liberalism within British Quakerism."

     Simon Bright, "'Friends have no cause to be ashamed of being by others thought non-evangelical':  unity and diversity of belief among early nineteenth-century British Quakers," in Unity and diversity in the church:  papers read at the 1994 summer meeting and the 1995 winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society, ed. R. N. Swanson, Studies in church history 32 (Oxford:  published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 340 (337-349).

Aaronic blessing, Priestly benediction

The Lord bless you and keep you:
The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you:
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. 

     Num 26:24-26 RSV, a version of which appears on the second of the two 6th-century BCE Ketef Hinnom scrolls/amulets (KH2) discovered in 1979, ""the oldest copies of biblical text known to us today."

"Where God's Word is, there is God himself, there God's Spirit is at work, there God establishes his covenant, there he plants His church."

"Waar Gods Woord is, daar is Hij zelf, daar werkt zijn Geest, daar richt Hij zijn verbond op, daar plant Hij zijn kerk."

     Herman Bavinck, Saved by grace:  the Holy Spirit's work in calling and regeneration, trans. J. Mark Beach (Grand Rapids, MI:  Reformation Heritage Books, 2008), 79; Roeping en wedergeboorte (Kampen:  Zalsman, 1903), 109 (chap. 2, "De onmiddellijke werking des H. Geestes en de genademiddelen," The immediate working of the Holy Spirit and the means of grace).  I traced this back to the original Dutch; later, Daniel (Bonggun) Baek, who had access to the e-version of Saved by grace, found it in the English translation.

"no more fitting end"

1886-1948

"In 1922 Casel had become chaplain to a community of Benedictine nuns in Westphalia and it was there that he suddenly died, during the Easter vigil in 1948, just as he had sung the threefold Lumen Christi and . . . was about to sing the Exsultet.  For one whose life had been dedicated to bringing out the meaning of the greatest festival in Christian life no more fitting end could have been devised by the pious imagination of a medieval hagiographer."

     Fergus Kerr, O.P., "Odo Casel:  mystery, worship and word," Life of the Spirit 17, no. 1962 (December 1962):  211 (211-221).  I was put onto this by Patrick Prétot, "La réforme de la semaine sainte sous Pie XII (1951-1956):  enjeux d'un premier pas vers la réforme liturgique de Vatican II," Questions liturgiques 93 (2012):  200n20 (196-217), but there seems to be some variation in the accounts of precisely when in relation to the Exsultet this happened.

"orientation, tendency, disposition and activity"

Zephyr Institute

"the expression used in official Roman documents and in Papal addresses on the issue . . . is not 'orientation' but 'deep seated tendencies'—in Italian originals tendenze omosessuali profondamente."
"between orientation and habitual action lies disposition."
"bishops, religious superiors, and directors of seminaries need to attend to the fourfold distinction:  orientation, tendency, disposition and activity (which in terms of the scholastic Aristotelian categories some might once have been taught correspond to different levels of potentiality and actuality:  for Aristotle dunamis and energeia).  And having learned that, the task is to apply it practically to establish a barrier so as to inhibit the occurrence of the fourth.  That wall needs to be placed after orientation, for by the time tendencies and dispositions have developed it is likely to be too late. . . ."
"At any rate, no good outcome can be hoped for until this painful nettle is grasped. . . ."

     John Haldane, "It’s Déjà vu all over again," New Blackfriars 100, no. 1087 (May 2019):  258-261 (249-263).  

Theology 101 from the prominent Scottish philosopher John Haldane

Zephyr Institute

"In general it is a mistake to infer from the principle of creation that God made everything to be as it is.  God creates and sustains a world of natural agents, but those agents then interact with one another according to their abilities and liabilities in ways that have consequences which God allows but need not directly will. . . .  From the fact that God made nature it does not follow that God made creatures this or that way, though it does follow from His sustaining creation that He permitted such things to occur.  Anyone regarding that as an unacceptable position had better have some other account of how things are not perfect.  Besides which, it does not follow from the fact that God permits a condition that he endorses or values it or wishes to see it lived out, or that he is indifferent to these issues."

     John Haldane, "It’s Déjà vu all over again," New Blackfriars 100, no. 1087 (May 2019):  259 (249-263).  The first "He" appears as "HE," but that looks like a typo to me.  Nothing new here, of course, just Theology 101.