Saturday, March 13, 2010

John Chrysostom, not Clement of Alexandria

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The first part of the following fragment, reproduced at ANF 2, p. 581 (=PG 9, col. 755/756), is John Chrysostom, not Clement of Alexandria ...
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Hart on the tears of Peter

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"To us today, this hardly seems an extraordinary detail of the narrative, however moving we may or may not find it; we would expect Pet...
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Mozart didn't hear it "as it were, all at once"?

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"I had no idea, until I read Peter Hacker's review of my book Selves: an essay in revisionary metaphysics (January 22), that the l...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Bowman on Avatar

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"What [Yoon] means is that the feelings of discovery and delight and, on leaving the theater, nostalgia that even ordinary moviegoers a...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

In necessariis unitas, in non necessariis libertas, in utrisque caritas (Marco Antonio De Dominis, 1617). Cf. In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas (and other variants). English: "In essentials unity. . . ."

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The earliest known occurrence of this so far is to my knowledge once again "Catholic", if somewhat dubiously so, given that the Di...
Monday, March 1, 2010

The poor and the wretched I can handle, but the irksome?

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“O God almighty and tender-hearted, . . . “Forgive us, [we] who have disregarded the presence of your Christ in the poor, the wretched, and...

"'a modern classic. . . . impervious to technical change'"

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"OUP has taken to touting the [now] heavily discounted sixty-five-volume hard-copy ODNB as 'a modern classic . . . impervious to t...