Saturday, July 22, 2017

"If they do not grow, they are not desires."

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Encyclopaedia Britannica "When our desires are not satisfied, they grow stronger, and becoming stronger they take hold of their obj...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

"more directly and more intimately than . . . their bodies"

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"By matrimony, therefore, the souls of the contracting parties are joined and knit together more directly and more intimately than are ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

A couple of the ground rules: Schubert on the medieval and early modern disputatio

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Karl Friedrich Lessing (1867) "before the beginning of the real disputation came rules for the Tragen, [rules] that were to guarant...

"took . . . and ate" redux

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"The Eucharist is an act—better:  a decision.  [A] decision so irrevocable that, in it, Jesus can already communicate the fruits of th...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

"It was only a matter of an inch; but an inch is everything when you are balancing."

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"it is exactly this which explains what is so inexplicable to all the modern critics of the history of Christianity.  I mean the monst...
Monday, July 17, 2017

You cannot serve [both] God and Hegel

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"This [one] text alone should have checked the blind dash of all those who hurl themselves into pretending to be at once Christians and...

"my temple and my tow'r"

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Pride of man and earthly glory, Sword and crown betray his trust: What with care and toil he buildeth, Tower and temple, fall to dust. B...