Saturday, May 28, 2011

Polanyi on the indispensability of submission

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"An art which cannot be specified in detail cannot be transmitted by prescription, since no prescription for it exists. It can be passe...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

"Where there is no Election, there is no history."

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Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, The promise, trans. Rebecca Howell Balinski, Msgr. Richard Malone, Jean Duchesne, & Rivka Karplus (Grand ...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Balthasar on the doctrines of election and predestination

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"When God's universal plan for the world, for its creation as for its redemption, thus definitively moves into view, it becomes imp...

"the most astonishing thing is not that Jesus could be raised, but that he could die."

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"The power that is his to lay down his life by relinquishing it ( theinai ) is by that very fact the power to take it up again ( labein...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

"He moves through the world leaving people more alive to the things he loves."

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Edmund de Waal, of Proust's Swann and by implication his own fourth cousin Charles Ephrussi, in The hare with the amber eyes: a family...

"you cause sufferings upon sufferings, in a miserable, lamentable welter of catastrophe."

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The Chorus in Euripides' Helen, ll. 1163-1164, trans. James Morwood ( Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen, trans. & ed. James Morwoo...

Euripides on the point of punctuation

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What is god, or is not god, or what is in between? Which of mortals can say after searching? He who can see the divine leaping this way a...