Saturday, August 30, 2014

Divine revelation doesn't diminish us; it blows the lid off of every anthropology we have ever arrived at, or been capable of "living up to," on our own

›
"we don't know what we are."  But "God knows us in ways we cannot know ourselves, and ... values us in ways we cannot val...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Prenter in 1958

›
     "The moment liturgy is no longer the corporal form of dogma it has lost its proper significance and objectivity.  The sole criteri...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

The Fathers of the English Dominican Province . . .

›
. . .   were really only Laurence Shapcote, 1864-1947  (Thomistica, citing Fergus Kerr, "Comment:  The Shapcote translation," New ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

"We do not believe in dogma, but in the living God. More precisely, . . . we believe from within dogma or through/by means of dogma."

›
"Nous ne croyons pas au dogme, mais au Dieu vivant.  Plus exactement, . . . nous croyons dans le dogme ou par le dogme."      ...
Monday, August 25, 2014

"Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace."

›
"Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified; M...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

"the loss of Moses was the defeat of Jesus, insofar as it was the hope of Jesus to bless and relieve the poor."

›
     Marilynne Robinson, "The fate of ideas:  Moses," in  When I was a child I read books  (New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

"the bishop speaks for himself."

›
"He gives an account, with Episcopal self-assurance, of what Christians believe, which I, who have long answered to that description, r...