Saturday, January 31, 2015

"Dover Beach is not about to be submerged. But a tide has turned, and boats at anchor now point the other way."

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     Jonathan Clark on Roger Scruton's In the soul of the world (Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 2014), in "Books of t...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

"It is the Text that saves us; the interlineary glosses, and the marginal notes, and the variæ lectiones, controversies and perplexities, undo us:"

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"When I come to heaven, I shall not need to ask of S. John 's Angel, nor of his Elders, Ubi Prophetæ, ubi Apostoli, ubi Evangelistæ...
Monday, January 19, 2015

"May we seek those things which are beneficial to our brothers, without counting the cost, —to help them on the way to salvation."

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"May we seek those things which are beneficial to our brothers, without counting the cost, — to help them on the way to salvation....
Monday, January 12, 2015

"Culturally speaking, the Christian religion is one of those subjects about which it is cool to be ignorant."

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     Rowan Williams, "No life, here  —  no joy, terror or tears,"  Church times,  17 July 1998, p. 27 (26-27).

"If a corpse clearly marked 'Jesus of Nazareth' turned up, I should save myself a lot of trouble and become a Quaker."

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"I have never quite managed to see how we can make sense of the sacramental life of the Church without a theology of the risen body; an...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Intimations of Christianity among the Romans

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     "'You must forgive me, Nicolaus; I know that you will disagree, and that you have no way to voice your disagreement; but I hav...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

Quem terra pontus aethera . . . (attr. Venantius Fortunatus, c.530-c.610) / The God whom earth and sea and sky . . . (John Mason Neale, 1818-1866)

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Quem terra pontus aethera . . . The God whom earth and sea and sky . . .      Hymn, Office of readings, Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary...