Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The "Adoro te devote" should really be called the "Te devote laudo". So not "Hidden God, devoutly I adore thee," but rather (to but modify the one translation) "Hidden God, devoutly I do praise thee".

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     According to Robert Wielockx, in "Adoro te deuote:   zur Lösung einer alten Crux," Annales theologici:  revista internazional...
Monday, May 27, 2013

"It is therefore the worship of God alone that renders them superior [to the beasts], through which alone one is assisted to immortality."

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"[It] is therefore the worship of God alone that renders them superior, through which alone one is assisted [(i.e. aspired)]  to immort...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

"To be an atheist in the best modern sense, . . . and so to be a truly intellectually and emotionally fulfilled naturalist in philosophy, one must genuinely succeed in not believing in God...."

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"To be an atheist in the best modern sense, . . . and so to be a truly intellectually and emotionally fulfilled naturalist in philosoph...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

"Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth".

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"'Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain. . . . If it didn’t matter, it w...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

"without faith it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him."

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The 1) existence and 2) providence of God are the first two things in which faith, to be saving, must believe. "l’existence de D...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

"Spirituality" is not very often "life according to the Spirit" for St. Thomas

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"one can consider as assured the following conclusions:      "1. One meets again quite unmistakably in Thomas two of the three s...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Marx on communism

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"The  Rheinische Zeitung , which cannot concede the theoretical reality of communist ideas even in their present form, and can even les...