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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Gregory on the Christian distinction
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Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study "Every finding and every possible finding of natural science is compatible with a notion o...
Monday, April 20, 2009
St. John of Damascus on matter
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"I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake, who willed to take His abode in matter; who wo...
Yannaras on the Eucharist
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"all these, and a host of other nightmarish syndromes, form the world which today greets every infant who becomes a godchild of the Chu...
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Buckley on Diderot
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"[The Marquis de] Sade was made of much sterner stuff than Diderot. He was a man who knew a conclusion when he saw one." Mi...
Brown on the Mediterranean as backwater
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"In the eighth century the Mediterranean seaboard came to be ruled from Baghdad; the Mediterranean became a backwater to men who were u...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The ODCC on the tolerati, vivandi
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tolerati (Lat., ‘tolerated persons’). The technical term formerly used in canon law for those excommunicated persons with whom the faithf...
Monday, April 13, 2009
St. Isaac the Syrian on what happens "When knowledge follows the desire of the flesh"
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"When knowledge follows the desire of the flesh, it brings with it these tendencies: wealth, vanity, adornment, rest for the body, and ...
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