Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Blame the careless 'religious' above all

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". . . There is no univocal application to God that we can make of any of the concepts that furnish us [with] our rational exploration...

"'I kn[o]w that you always hear me. . . .'"

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Wikimedia Commons "'I knew that you always hear me. . . .'" ἐγὼ δὲ ᾔδειν ὅτι πάντοτέ μου ἀκούεις. . . .      J...
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...