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Saturday, October 15, 2011
The missing link
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"Although they used the term in early writings, ID proponents today regularly deny that they are creationists. . . . "[Yet] Among...
And speech about God above all
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The "early guesswork [of the child learning to speak] may appear floundering and foolish to adults, but the conjectural character of li...
We say more than we can know, whether for good or for ill
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"just as, owing to the ultimately tacit character of all our knowledge, we remain ever unable to say all that we know, so also, in view...
"Alexander’s winged boots are harder to believe when recounted in Xenophontian prose."
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"The [450 aa (after the death of Alexander)] source who provides modern historians with most of their facts, therefore, was himself dep...
"if they did not come we should have to look for them".
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"How happy we are . . . that the poor should thus come to us; if they did not come we should have to look for them; and for that there ...
"riveted to that rude seat, a prisoner of sinners."
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"the confessional was the instrument of his crucifixion. He was 'a martyr of the confessional,' says the Abbé Monnin. He migh...
Thursday, October 6, 2011
St. Athanasius on the redirection of the senses
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"men's mind having finally fallen to things of sense, the Word disguised himself by appearing in a body, that he might, as man, tra...
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