Thursday, March 22, 2012

Dissent can be the path of least resistance

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"submission to authority is in general less deliberately assertive than is an act of dissent.  But not always.  St. Augustine's str...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

"Two lovely hymns, separated by only two generations, bespeak the momentous influence of fundamentalism."

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     "the momentous influence of fundamentalism"?  What of that line in the first stanza of the hymn by the Anglican Croly (below)...

"dieux dont le principal tort était d'exister"

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"the patristic notion of death as enemy entails . . . a certain notion of sin.  It is in what the Fathers consider to be 'the sin...

"it is not in the power of the Parties, though of common consent"

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"that Marriage it self and the Obligations thence arising, are Jure divino, appears thus; First, Obligations arising from voluntar ...
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 ...