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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Tolstoy on being a doer of the word
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I put this up for the next person looking to track it to source. Christian doesn't hesitate over the date (1847): "It is easier ...
Monday, May 30, 2011
A library is an act of faith
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Une bibliothèque est un acte de foi Des générations ténébreuses encore Qui rendent dans la nuit témoignage à l'aurore. Victor Hugo, ...
Sunday, May 29, 2011
On the one hand, on the other II
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"[Epiphanius] also said, 'The acquisition of Christian books is necessary for those who can use them. For the mere sight of these ...
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Fool me twice
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"The same old man helped some thieves when they were stealing. When they had taken away what was inside his cell, Abba Euprepius saw t...
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...
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