Friday, November 29, 2013

"how is it consistent with the belief that the church is the body of Christ, a belief I share, to think it has no intrinsic life to be relied on, and must, for the sake of its survival, be fastened to a more vigorous body, that of the nation?"

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     Marilynne Robinson, "Wondrous love," Christianity and literature 59, no. 2 (Winter 2010):  212 (202-215) , and  When I was a ...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

"Always you are there to help me."

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In the early hours of the morning, I think of you, O Lord.      In the early hours of the morning, I think of you, O Lord. Always you...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Grelot on Jesus in the face of death

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"The death of Jesus is not that of Socrates, drinking the hemlock in a calm and impavid fashion:  Jesus suffers fear and anguish in ful...

"if the whole precedes in the type, then [it] is not in a type, but must be considered a truth of history": Jerome on Julian the Apostate on Hos 11:1/Mat 2:15

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"This passage—which, in [his] seventh book, Julian Augustus has vomited forth against us, that is, [us] Christians—he calumniates, and...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

"To identify the material and the efficient causes of a thing could never be proof of the absence or logical superfluity of formal and final causes; and, even today, no advance in the sciences obliges us to think otherwise."

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     David Bentley Hart,  The experience of God:  being, consciousness, bliss  (New Haven, CT:  Yale University Press, 2013), 68.
Saturday, November 16, 2013

"he moves on a line, on which did he progress for centuries, he would but be carried further from them, instead of catching them up."

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     "Now this, I fear, will seem a hard doctrine to some of us.  There are those, whom it is impossible not to respect and love, of am...
Friday, November 8, 2013

Running with the buffaloes

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     “There was an anchorite in the desert grazing with the buffaloes and he prayed to God, saying:  ‘Lord, let me know if I am falling beh...