Friday, July 22, 2016

An "age-old prejudice" (the last acceptable one)

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Bayerische StaatsBibliothek      "As for our jovial Christian kin, delegates to the Council of Mâcon in 585 submitted for discussi...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

"Tradition thus includes, but is also wider than, the truths enumerated in magisterial promulgations".

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Dialogos Institute "If theology is not to be reduced to religious studies or even intellectual self-abuse, we must aim to embrace t...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."

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     Martin Luther, Letter  no. 1610 to Justus Jonas the Elder, written from V/Feste Koburg (Fort Coburg) on 29 June (?) 1530, WA Briefe V...
Monday, July 4, 2016

caelestis vitae actio

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Cod. Vat. Reg. lat. 316, fol. 88r "May this oblation dedicated to your name, purify us, O Lord, and day by day bring our conduct closer...

"what help is there in Greek, what in Hebrew, what in the Latin language?"

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Historic England "Here lies tongueless a man who used many languages, and was the official reader of Hebrew [at Christ Church, Oxfo...
Friday, July 1, 2016

What Eberhard Arnold would have said to Hitler

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"'My dear Adolf Hitler, this can’t go on much longer; you yourself can’t possibly take any more pleasure in all this killing, that...

"Before 428, theotokos is not in fact encountered in the literary œuvre of Cyril, though it is found in at least one homily of Nestorius".

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Hagia Sophia "The appellation θεοτόκος was not at all universal.  After the Council of Ephesus, it still had to be explained to t...