Wednesday, November 4, 2015

"When he died on the cross, he did that, in the wild weather of his outlying provinces, in the torture of the body of his revelation, which he had done at home in glory and gladness."

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Wikimedia Commons       George MacDonald, "The creation in Christ,"  Ἔπεα Ἄπτερα :  Unspoken sermons, third series (London: ...

"Though God transcends all signs, he has rendered himself Sign in the Incarnate One."

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     Aidan Nichols,  The chalice of God:  a systematic theology in outline  (Collegeville, MN:  Liturgical Press, 2012), 39.      Thus, the...

"the moment of the fathers is the moment of the constitutive reception of biblical revelation, which the later Church only excogitates and applies."

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     Aidan Nichols,  The chalice of God:  a systematic theology in outline  (Collegeville, MN:  Liturgical Press, 2012), 34, citing J. Ratzi...

From Torah to, in Christian interpretation, Christ (or "the outpouring of his Spirit on all flesh")

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This is our God;      no other can be compared to him! He found the whole way to knowledge,      and gave her to Jacob his servant   ...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Sir Martin Rees on creatio ex nihilo and the Thomistic distinction between essence (essentia) and existence (esse)

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     "Cosmologists sometimes claim that the universe can arise 'from nothing'.  But they should watch their language, especiall...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

sana doctrina

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"Though, in the wake of the classical German philosophers, I am committed to a high estimate of rationality ( Vernunft ), I do not cons...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."

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      Hillary Clinton shaking hands with Shubhashish Mukherjee, Washington, D.C., 20 May 2004 . ...