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Thursday, July 8, 2010
No nature without grace
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"those things that are natural to man are neither withdrawn from nor bestowed upon him by sin ." St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theol...
Monday, July 5, 2010
We forbid anyone to wage war during our war
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"In the fourteenth century the kings of France, wishing to concentrate their forces against the English, called upon their barons to cu...
Were the Tudors Tudors?
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"it looks as if it was David Hume who made the term [Tudor] an indispensable part of the historian's vocabulary when, in 1757, he p...
Bernard Gui and William of Tocco on the Thomistic method
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"it was in those nights of prayer that he learned what he would write or dictate in the day-time. . . . It was as though the prayer of ...
Saturday, July 3, 2010
My yoke is easy, and my burden is light
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"the commandments of the New Law . . . have been given about matters that are necessary to gain the end of eternal Happiness, . . . but...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Barth on (let's say) the simple substitution of Creator-Redeemer-Sustainer
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"The content of the doctrine of the Trinity which the Church has formulated and dogmatics has to repeat and Church proclamation respect...
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Phaedra on playing the hand you've been dealt
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I am contriving to win glory from my shame. ἐκ τῶν γὰρ αἰσχρῶν ἐσθλὰ μηχανώμεθα. Phaedra, in Euripides' Hippolytus, l. 331, trans. ...
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