Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Τί καινὸν εἰσήνεγκε Χριστὸς εἰς τὸν κόσμον

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What Christ brought new into the world The title of a lost treatise by "Alexander, bishop of Hierapolis, and martyr [(Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἱεραπ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Fürst on two contributions of Christianity to Western civilization too often opposed

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"Christianity recognizes, besides the practice of the love of neighbor, an additional important criterion of the authenticity of Church...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Scholten on the supposed Hellenization of early Christianity

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"in reality, deep, fundamental divides [(in ihren Grundanschauungen tiefe Gräben)] separate Christianity and late-antique Platonism. Pl...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Riches (and Caldecott) on Western pneumatology and the filioque

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"Is Jenson correct to suggest that Barth's binitarianism results from an inherent Western trinitarian deficiency? Do the filioque ...

Healy on the natural desire for the beatific vision

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"the deepest desire of nature is precisely the renunciation of anything like a claim or a demand in the first place; it is a holding-on...

Torrell on Aquinas on the Holy Spirit

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"A simple reading of the texts suffices to destroy the myth that [(légende selon laquelle)] our Western theology would not speak [(parl...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

A gift beyond all earthly knowing

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"Now she comes to him again. He can see her again: a bride, dressed all in white, as innocent as himself of the great power they were...