Saturday, December 29, 2012

Not (here) the dangers of holding one another accountable, but the dangers of a disingenuous "repentance"

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"The first and fatal charm of national repentance is, therefore, the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repentin...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Newman on the dormition of St. Peter

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"The regalia Petri might sleep, as the power of a chancellor has slept; not as an obsolete, for it never had been operative, but as a ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

"after all our diligence, to the end of our lives and to the end of the Church"

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Scripture "cannot, as it were, be mapped, or its contents catalogued; but after all our diligence, to the end of our lives and to the e...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

"And then, in the fullness of time, God changed his hiding place."

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     A lovely little "Christmas meditation" by Ronald A. Knox, in which the turning point is the Incarnation of course, but also t...

"We never doubted that the unorthodox opinions were honestly held: what we complain of is your continuing your ministry after you have come to hold them."

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     C. S. Lewis, "Christian apologetics" (Easter 1945), God in the dock:  essays on theology and ethics (Grand Rapids, MI:  Will...

"The real pacificus is he who promotes peace, not he who gasses about it."

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     C. S. Lewis, "Delinquents in the snow," Time and tide 38 (7 December 1957):  1522 (1521-5122), as quoted in God in the dock:...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Forever is not, after all, a "fluid span in the face of God's sensitive response to every human tremor"

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     "We could say that they have nothing to do with each other, this Jerusalem of rejecters and the other, the 'Jerusalem' t...