Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Pseudo-Melanchthon?

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"In the afternoon began the preliminary skirmish over the rules of the tournament.  The first question was whether to have stenographer...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

I have been baptized (Ego sum baptizatus)!

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1531 June 4 , Predigt am Trinitatissonntag, WA 34.1, p. 504 a, ll. 9-11 (cf. also b, ll. 19ff.:  "ego et omnes Christiani sunt baptizat...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

"it is not that the myth of Thoth concerning the supreme god and the treacherous scribe anticipates the positive truth of grammatology, but rather that grammatology just repeats (identically) the myth of Thoth."

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     John Milbank, Theology and social theory:  beyond secular reason, 2nd ed. (Malden, MA:  Blackwell Publishing, 2006), 312, on Derrida (a...

"'embraced the executioner, and kissed the gore on his hands'"

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Cavalieri (1584). New York Public Library .      "In the silence after Campion's death, broken only by the sound of weeping and...
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...