Tuesday, March 13, 2012

"The slothful person cannot bear to give up on happiness but she also cannot bear to endure what true happiness requires of her."

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"sloth is essentially a spiritual vice with a spiritual object.  For what the slothful person resists is the whole 'new self' (...
Monday, March 5, 2012

TRY USING ENGLISH. Or: Jeffrey on the proliferation of "diminished translations of Scripture" that don't "bear the weight of . . . glory"

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"the social determinist claim that we are definitively constrained by the character of our contemporary vernacular is just plain false...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

The demonic is always, in the end, an inhibition

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"Thus Satan brings to completion his own disaster, be it because he damns together with himself those who identify themselves with his ...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

"We are not personally acquainted with the writings of John Calvin, nor are we certain how nearly we agree with his views of divine truth; neither do we care."

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     The two early nineteenth-century Kentucky revivalists Robert Marshall and J. Thompson in response to criticism (presumably Reformed), a...

A potential downside of competition

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"The consequences for the churches were immense.  They were now compelled to compete for adherents. . . ."      "This combi...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Edwards on the immediacy of the "divine and supernatural light"

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     "II. I proceed now to the second thing proposed, viz. to show how this light is immediately given by God, and not obtained by natu...

"It is not rational to suppose, if there be any such excellency in divine things, that wicked men should see it."

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"It is not rational to suppose, if there be any such excellency in divine things, that wicked men should see it. 'Tis not rational ...