Saturday, August 27, 2016

Penington on the liturgical year

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"it is not the different practices from one another that breaks the peace and unity, but the judging of one another because of differe...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

"expertise is only expertise about power."

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     John Milbank, Theology and social theory:  beyond secular reason, 2nd ed. (Malden, MA:  Blackwell Publishing, 2006), 442.  "the ba...

The sweetness of the Gospel lies mostly in pronouns

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Digital Puritan 1545 : "The nature of this dowtye diuynite is to stande moche in the declynynge of pronownes".      John Ba...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

"you will find much more labouring amongst the woods than you ever will amongst books."

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" aliquid amplius invenies in silvis quam in libris."      St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola 106 ad Magistrum Henricum Murda...
Monday, August 22, 2016

"Brothers, be on your guard: the Devil is very crafty, but Christ is the wisdom of God."

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Wikimedia Commons "frater, cauti estote; multum astutus est diabolus; sed Christus dei sapientia est."      Augustine, Le...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Pseudo-Cyprian

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     "About that time he [(Cyprian)] wrote a letter to his friend Donatus.  'Donatus,'—he said, in effect—,'this is a chee...
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Milbank on "Christianity and coercion"

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     "The only finally tolerable, and non-sinful punishment, for Christians, must be the self -punishment inherent in sin.  When a pe...