Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Might as well have opposed it

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"it is not enough merely to be enlightened and in tune with history.  During the Reign of Terror, after having given good service to th...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

From sacrament to Sacrament, forever

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"it is true that the invisible grace that these structures communicate to us, or for which they are the occasion of our reception, will...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Steck on the existence of man after Auschwitz

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"There are those who say, After Auschwitz one can no longer speak of God.  [Yet] Israel did so [after another such event] in the Old Te...

"The existence of these specific men is the existence of Jesus Christ for us and for all men."

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Karl Barth, CD I/2, 486 = KD I/2, 539 ( § 19.2.3), as quoted by Bruce L. McCormack in his "The being of Holy Scripture is in becomin...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

For better

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     "Your first wife married you for better or for worse.  Your second wife, particularly if you were sixty and she was a twenty-eight...

Morning prayer the morning after seeing Werner Herzog's "Cave of forgotten dreams"

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 Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, End chamber, West wall , c. 30,000 BCE.  When I look at the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the m...
Monday, August 8, 2011

"although he takes back his word, although he breaks his promise, although he takes back what he gave, although he envelops his goodness in the hidden, in contradiction"

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"Abraham is not [just] anyone who must give [up] his child; [it is] not something, albeit the most beloved [of things], [that] Abraham ...