Saturday, March 26, 2011

The Christocentrism of the Marian invitatoria

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COMMON OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY MEMORIAL OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY ON SATURDAY Come, let us worship Christ, the Son of Mary. Christum,...
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 ...