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Friday, December 5, 2008

A corrective on Aquinas worth heeding

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We must now take the measure of and correct de Lubac’s understanding of Aquinas on grace. “in biblical poetry . . . the superabundance of Go...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Profession a necessary (if hardly sufficient) condition

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"when the Scripture speaks of Christian practice,  as the best evidence to others, of sincerity and truth of grace, a profession of Ch...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Edwards on purity of heart, or, rather, the lack of it

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"At last, when it came to extremity, Pharaoh consented to let the people all go, and all that they had; but he was not steadfastly ...
Friday, November 28, 2008

Sterne on the rules of composition

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"in writing what I have set about, I shall confine myself neither to [Horace's] rules, nor to any man's rules that ever lived....

Vallin on the distinction between creatio ex nihilo and creatio ab novo

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"Creation ex nihilo isn't just tenable, it is demonstrable metaphysically. . . . Creation de novo, the fact of the beginning in t...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Grace does not render the nature it elevates impure

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"God is not, within his creation, the rival of [the] person, and his grace does not render the nature it elevates impure." Ph. Val...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Buckley on a near-fatal lost opportunity

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"If Leonard Lessius and Marin Mersenne, two of the most influential theologians of their time, among the first to write against the ear...
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