Monday, June 11, 2018

If natural and human history is "historically contingent", then faith is "the behavior that is, in the last analysis, alone appropriate to reality."

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     Wolfhart Pannenberg, "Contingency and natural law" (1970), trans. William C. Linss, in Toward a theology of nature:  essays o...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

He had the right perspective on everything else, just not MY cause du jour

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"If [Simon] Leys [(Pierre Ryckmans)] had an Achilles heel, it was his deep-seated Catholicism which in 1995 led him to defend the tradi...

"nothing ages a theological contribution so fast as fashionable 'relevance'."

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University of Oxford      James Orr, "Morality of love:  the common sense of Christian communication," a review of Oliver O...
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...