Saturday, October 31, 2009

Grace escapes our experience

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"Since it belongs to the supernatural order, grace escapes our experience and cannot be known except by faith [(Gratia, supernaturalis...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Stendahl on "selling the faithful a place in heaven"

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"There is a way of eating a soft-boiled egg, in the seminary, that testifies to progress toward a life of devotion." Stendahl, The...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Rahner on the danger in sleep

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"If a man brings with him into his sleep good, genuine, holy images, if his power of imagination is already formed by means of the true...
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...