Saturday, March 19, 2011

In essentials (including morals), unity; or Unity in morals is not a non-essential, not a non-necessarium

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"There is a Reformation slogan that sums up the impossibility here: 'What the law demands, the gospel bestows.' The law demand...

Conway Morris on the brain as an antenna, and on "a 'time-line' for creatio ex nihilo"

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"Suppose we were to think of the brain, which is by implication ultimately 'only' a chemical 'machine', as an 'ante...

Conway Morris on creatio ex nihilo

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"I would suggest that all attempts to understand consciousness will fail until we not only abandon a naturalistic framework, but also r...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Only half right, but what a half

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"The problem was [Gene Robinson's] willingness to overuse the rhetoric of civil rights, as if the struggle for gay equality is just...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Not ultimately the Eucharist from the Cross, but the Cross from the Eucharist

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"everything that follows the Last Supper receives a new meaning; it takes its meaning from Jesus' decision to give his eucharistic ...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

but unto God the things that are God's

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"What do emperors have to do with councils?" St. John of Damascus, Commentary on a passage in St. Sophronius' The spiritual ...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

I was born Jewish

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Je suis né juif. J’ai reçu le nom de mon grand-père paternel, Aron. Devenu chrétien par la foi et le baptême, je suis demeuré juif...