Friday, September 9, 2016

"To generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures, upon a given body, is the labor and aim of human power."

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"Super datum corpus novam naturam sive novas naturas generare et superinducere, opus et intentio est humanae potentiae."      Fr...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

"I don't know if it's any better with the Anglican Church in England, but the Episcopalian Church in America seems to have gone stark raving mad."

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The Poetry Foundation      W. H. Auden, "Liturgy, Reform of," in A certain world:  a commonplace book (New York:  The Viking P...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

George Fox "advocated a Protestant war of liberation in Europe"

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" Friend, thou shouldest have invited all the Christians upon earth in all Nations that are against popery to thee, to come in and joyn...
Monday, August 29, 2016

A run-of-the-mill Lutheran definition of faith

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"Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see."      The English derives from a translation of Heidegg...
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...