Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Christian fabrications

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INSCRIPTIONES FALSAE VEL ALIENAE: CIL II 233* (p. 26*, under XII. CLVNIA (Clunia)) ; cf. the CIL Database : diocletiano caes. aug. gal...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

"the question of the sacraments IS the question of the church drawing its life from Christ."

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     "Why did Barth, a modern ecumenical theologian par excellence, not pursue the significance of the eucharistic liturgy as a decisiv...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

"Age . . . has done more for my morals than Methodism ever did."

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     River Bill Thacker, in Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow,  chap. 23 (Washington, DC:  Counterpoint, 2000), 256).
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

"remember the Church in Syria"

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"Remember me in your prayers, that I may attain to God, and remember the Church in Syria, of which I am not worthy to be called a membe...
Monday, July 22, 2013

"faith 'sees' to the extent that it journeys, to the extent that it chooses to enter into the horizons opened up by God’s word."

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"The word spoken to Abraham. . . .  is a call to leave his own land, a summons to a new life, the beginning of an exodus which points h...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Tocqueville on the origin of the Sublime

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     "When skepticism [(le doute)] had depopulated heaven, and the progress of equality had reduced each individual to smaller and bett...

"in crowning their merits, you crown your own gifts."

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It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal...