Saturday, March 31, 2012

Stealing from churches

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"in almost every case where [twentieth-century evangelical] theology has provided guidance for broader intellectual work, that theology...

In necessariis, parum ab Evangelicalismo

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"much of what is distinctive about American evangelicalism is not essential to Christianity."      Mark A. Noll, The scandal o...

"The tendency of American evangelicals, when confronted with a problem, is to act. For the sake of Christian thinking, that tendency must be suppressed."

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     Mark A. Noll, The scandal of the evangelical mind (Grand Rapids, MI:  William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994), 243.           ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The source of a sentence Zacharias Ursinus attributes to Justin Martyr

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Ursinus :  Quemadmodum Justinus ait, Crede & ubique praesentem esse λόγον secundum substantiam, & singulari modo existere in prop...
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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...