Saturday, September 19, 2015

Te totum applica ad textum: rem totam applica ad te.

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     Johann Albrecht Bengel, Praefatio to the octavo Greek Testament of 1734 ( Η ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ | NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GR ÆCUM  ita adornatum u...
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"'her sobs in the night'"

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     "Critics admire the aesthetic perfection of Vladimir[ Nabokov]'s novels but tend to neglect their moral and psychological geni...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

May the work of the sacrament have the prevenience

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Of our minds and bodies may the operation of the heavenly gift  take possession,  O Lord, we pray,  so that not what we perceive [(noster se...
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...