Saturday, December 20, 2014

Teilhard de Chardin on "the difficulties . . . in 'living in the world as though not being of the world'"

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“ Above all, trust in the slow work of God.  We are, quite naturally, impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.  We should l...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Speaking truth to [me]

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"As I've said many times before, we have serious obligations as believers to care for the poor, the immigrant, the elderly, and per...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The human soul considered qua soul is to be distinguished from the human soul qua form of a (particular) body

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"the soul seeks so to enjoy God that that enjoyment redounds to the body to the degree this is possible.  Therefore as long as it enjoy...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

vox Verbi

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"When the word [(verbo)] has been conveyed to you, does not the sound seem to say:   The word ought to grow, and I should diminish?   T...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

God "does not create the world, he saves it".

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     Alfred North Whitehead, Process and reality:  an essay in cosmology  V.ii.4 ((New York:  The Macmillan Company, 1960 [1929]), 526; corr...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

God is a se, not (as in Whitehead and process theology generally) causa sui

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     Jean-Michel Maidamé, "Cosmologie et théologie:  Étude de la notion de création dans la théologie nord-américaine du 'Procès...
Friday, December 5, 2014

"No folk tale has ever begun thus: 'Once upon a time there was a president.'"

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     Nicolás Gómez-Dávila, as quoted in "Deathless truths," by Matthew Walther, First things no. 248 (December 2014):  56, a revie...