Saturday, July 15, 2017

"let us never speak of 'divine kenosis' on the cross."

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"Christ Jesus performs in his passion precisely the same performance of agapè as in the Trinity, because the Son that he is from all ...
Friday, July 14, 2017

"Christian, look hard at them . . . in silence, and then ask for the print of the nails."

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     "'While Martin was praying in his cell, the evil spirit stood before him, environed in a glittering radiance, by such pretenc...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

"a sword will pierce through your own soul also"

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"God wills that Mary be in time the Mother of his Son; [and] this on the condition that the extremely exalted bond of affinity by which...

Small on the "fruits of modernity"

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     "So yes, liberalism didn't happen, peace and prosperity didn't materialize.  But because Bellaigue's value system is b...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Luther on the Divine office

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"in the wake of the Leipzig Debate, Luther's attitude to his monastic vocation began to alter.  From his early years as a monk, h...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

"as before death Christ's flesh was united personally and hypostatically with the Word of God, it remained so after His death, so that the hypostasis of the Word of God was not different from that of Christ's flesh after death".

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"sicut ante mortem caro Christi unita fuit secundum personam et hypostasim verbo Dei, ita et remansit unita post mortem, ut scilicet...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

"a war fought without a good stock of money is only a wispy shadow of what a war should be."

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     The fearsome monk, in chap. 46 of François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, as trans. Burton Raffel.  The original French doesn...