Saturday, October 10, 2009

God is forever incarnate

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"here and now and always, my salvation, my grace, my knowledge of God, rests on the Word in our flesh [(je jetzt und immer mein Heil, ...

Rahner on the convenience of a real, permanent, and "independent" dulia

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"do we really do what we think we do? Or are the names of the Saints, of the Angels, of the humanity of Christ, just so many changing ...
Saturday, October 3, 2009

Torrell on the danger of identifying the faith with a theologoumenon

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The legitimacy of theological intervention in matters scientific or philosophical [(l'intervention possible de la théologie à l'égar...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Gauthier on Aristotelian contemplation

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“the contemplation of God interests Aristotle in the Ethics, if at all, only because it is the perfection of man, and it is hardly at all th...
Monday, September 21, 2009

You were SERIOUS about that?

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"The seductively suggestive title of Kołakowski’s talk was 'The Devil in History.' For a while there was silence as students, f...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Brague on the role of "digestion" in the disappearance of philosophy from the Islamic world

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"I attach the greatest importance to a fact that Jean Jolivet has stressed: the 'philosopher' ( philosophus ) who debates with...
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...