Friday, August 1, 2014

"a marriage is whatever the government says it is."

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"There is . . . . no justification for the argument that Luther attempted to promote congregational singing by catering to the tastes of the masses."

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     “It is almost an axiom in the popular imagination that Luther, in order to further congregational singing and make his hymns more attr...

Calvin on faith

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"Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founde...

"'if they are fools, who deny the existence of God in their hearts, those appear to me even more senseless who first want to prove it.'"

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     Johann Georg Hamann, as quoted by John R. Betz, in “Hamann before Kierkegaard: a systematic theological oversight,” Pro ecclesia 16, n...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

DEVS SCIENTIARVM DOMINVS EST

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deus scientiarum dominus est        1 Sam 2:3, Vulgate, the incipit of a papal encyclical , a popular university motto (University of Otta...

"A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death—the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged."

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Wikimedia Commons Czeslaw Milosz, "Discrete charm of nihilism," New York review of books  45, no. 18 (November 19, 1998): 17 .
Monday, July 28, 2014

"doctrinae index disciplina est."

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"In their discipline we have an index of their doctrine."       Tertullian, De praescriptione haereticorum 43, as trans. Holmes ...