Saturday, January 12, 2013

"The theology of the Church is no random combination of various opinions, but a diligent, patient working out of one doctrine out of many materials."

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     John Henry Newman, An essay on the development of Christian doctrine: the edition of 1845,  ed. J. M. Cameron (Harmondsworth, Middlesex...

"nothing is more alien to the nature of a sacrament than to set before the people an empty spectacle, unaccompanied with explanation of the mystery."

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      John Calvin, The necessity of reforming the church . . . (1544).  Tracts and treatises, trans. Henry Beveridge (Grand Rapids, MI:  W...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

Fudge on Hus at Constance

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"He had once argued that the function of canon law was to restrain whatever conflicted with the church and revealed truth.  During his ...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

"Division is the schism, if schism there be, not interference."

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"If unity lies in the Apostolic succession, an act of schism is from the nature of the case impossible; for as no one can reverse his p...

"If anyone does not confess that Emmanuel is God in truth, and therefore that the holy virgin is the mother of God [(θεοτόκον, Dei genetricem)], . . . let him be anathema."

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"he who existed and was begotten of the Father before all ages is also said to have been begotten according to the flesh of a woman, wi...
Monday, December 31, 2012

"Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account."

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"On the whole I conclude as follows:—if there is a form of Christianity now in the world which is accused of gross superstition, of bor...

"The human longing for God, however, persists from age to age."

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"The distinctly modern metaphysical picture of reality is one that makes it possible to regard this world as a cave filled only with fl...