Saturday, September 12, 2009

Brague sins less than he lets on

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"If you don't know a number of things, compare them." Rémi Brague's riff on "if you don't know something, . . . t...
Sunday, September 6, 2009

"I mean, theologians' theology, not the variety knocked together by the profs de philo"

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"is it not also true that, in the final analysis, believing in God is, in a sense, refusing the world as it is and as it appears to an ...
Saturday, September 5, 2009

Brague on the damage done by fast-talking media stars and intellectuals

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"legends abound about the Middle Ages. I have done my utmost to destroy that teeming vermin. . . . I have no illusions about the suces...
Friday, September 4, 2009

Christum aufer, mutus fiet mundus

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Remove Christ, [and] the universe will fall silent. I.e., become incapable of articulate speech; be rendered mute or inarticulate; be struck...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Aquinas on the non-comprehensive sight of the beatific vision

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"The blessed soul of Christ himself does not have this comprehensive understanding; only the unique Son of God who is in the womb of th...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Pesch on the properly THEOLOGICAL thrust of the Second Part of the Summa

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"The IIa Pars [of the Summa theologiae ] doesn't compile [a list of] does and don'ts, not even divine dos and don'ts [(ste...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Anderson on 'the close nexus between Temple appurtenance and the presence of God'

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"Brown's observation . . . was made solely on the basis of the Exodus narrative and as such grounds the theology of the prologue in...