Monday, April 25, 2016

"grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. . . ."

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     Christopher Love (1618-1651), Grace:  the truth and growth and different degrees thereof:  the summe and substance of XV. sermons (Lon...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

"objective relevance", "subjective apprehension"

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"It was an intolerable truncation of the Christian message when the older Protestantism steered the whole doctrine of the atonement — a...

An unprincipled pacifism

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"In March 2004 I met with Dietlinde Jehle, the widow of Bonhoeffer’s pacifist friend [Herbert Jehle].  As we looked through his papers...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

"a certain natural equity obliges a man to live agreeably with his fellow-men; unless some reason should oblige him to sadden them for their good."

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"because man is a social animal he owes his fellow-man, in equity, the manifestation of truth without which human society could not las...

"there are no two opinions so contrary to each other, but some form of words may be found vague enough to comprehend them both."

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"how idle is it to suppose that to demand assent to a form of words which happens to be scriptural, is on that account sufficient to e...

"God allows parents to choose the name by which he himself will call their child for all eternity."

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      Pope Francis, Amoris Lætitia (19 March 2016)  166.
Monday, April 4, 2016

"Aber jetzt Achtung!"

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"Sie haben gesagt: «der handelnde und der sprechende Gott» - und ich als der erklärte «Laie» möchte Sie fragen: Hat Gott [nur] einmal g...