Saturday, September 12, 2015

Pitiless consistency

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"In the 1880s and 1890s, serious thinkers and popularizers influenced by Charles Darwin’s idea of natural selection proposed that the ...

"those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat" | "those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory or defeat"

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     Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a republic," address delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910, African and Europe...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Let no cliché go unregurgitated

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     Earle E. Cairns, "A Christian approach to the interpretation of history," Crisis Christology  5, no. 3 (Spring 1948):  3-19. ...

"The humanism of Golgatha" that is alone capable of crowning and regenerating both "the humanism of the Acropolis" and a Church that has lost its way

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     "In order to remake itself, Catholic theology will require the environment recreated by a culture in which the sympathetic objecti...
Monday, September 7, 2015

"'In general, those who feel the imperfections of this world most keenly are disinclined to set much store by the lives of others.'"

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"Were [Tolstoy]'s ethical principles so pure that they could not be put to bad use?  Or was his ideology 'an act of violence ag...

Act of Reparation, Silverstream Priory

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      Act of Reparation, Silverstream Priory .
Sunday, September 6, 2015

Own your own crazy

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"The name 'Barth' in the revisionist statements above does not refer to the actually existing textual Barth.  It refers, rather...