Saturday, June 2, 2018

"a sort of fundamental implausibility"

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Adrian Scarborough (The BBC)      "It would be a travesty to say that Guy suspected Apthorpe of lying.  His claims to distinction—p...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

"Wherever you are on earth, however long you remain on earth, the Lord is near, do not be anxious about anything."

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"So, brethren, rejoice in the Lord, not in the world.  That is, rejoice in the truth, not in wickedness; rejoice in the hope of eterni...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

"if theology does lay special claim to gaps, i.e., to exceptions to an explanation in terms of law, then regulated events cannot be seen as direct and living acts of God in the way that miracles are."

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     Wolfhart Pannenberg, paraphrasing Paul Althaus, Systematic theology, trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley, vol. 2 (Grand Rapids, MI:  William B...

Deus et familia

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"Only God and Guy knew the massive and singular quality of Mr Crouchback's family pride."  Yet "all his pride of family w...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Blame Bernard, not Henry of Ghent, Peter John Olivi, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham

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     "This investigation has shown that there was in the middle of the 12 th  century a tradition of thought with several representati...
Monday, May 7, 2018

Let's not beat around the bush, but get straight to the point

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O God, from whom all good things procede, bestow [them] bountifully upon [us], thy suppliants, in order that, at thy inspiration, we may thi...
Monday, April 30, 2018

"a sort of lawless law agreed upon by all"

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". . . Christian culture has always been haunted by a certain, seemingly irresoluble dilemma:  the mystery of an impossible mediation b...