Saturday, August 20, 2016

The modern political liberalism of late antique Rome

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"'The laws should punish offences against another's property, not offences against a man's own personal character.  No one ...
Friday, August 19, 2016

Wesley and Asbury

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Wesley "had great sympathy and even admiration for the working people of England, but it was the sympathy of an outsider.  When he tr...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

"How foolish, a Burgundian knight exclaimed bitterly, were all those lesser men who had risked death to fight a war so easily forgotten by the great."

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     "In January 1435, all wrapped in furs against the perishing cold, an illustrious gathering assembled two hundred miles south of Ar...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

"wherever it is certain that something essential for salvation is impossible, it is also certain that there really exists a supernatural possibility."

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"Là où il est certain qu’une chose indispensable au salut est impossible, il est certain qu’il existe réellement une possibilité surnat...
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...