Liber locorum communium

"All institutions are 'structures of sin'; but without [them] there is no virtue." Eve Tushnet, http://eve-tushnet.blogs...

"The dogmatism I now wish to recant is the dogmatism that blinds us to the beauty of dogma." Carol Zaleski, "How my mind ha...

"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosophe...

"'Jehan, Jehan, cessat doctorum doctrina, discipulorum disciplina.  Jehan be good, Jehan be studious, Jehan don't stay out of c...

"One is naturally tempted to compare Tertullian with Saint Irenaeus. . . .  The bishop of Lyon and the priest of Carthage study often t...

"The yield of a nuanced analysis of the different facets of the Trinitarian relation allows Thomas to honor a properly relational conce...

"substance, as such, is not visible to the bodily eye, nor does it come under any one of the senses, nor under the imagination, but sol...