Thursday, August 2, 2018

Marriage

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"You've got to go into the thing with your eyes shut, lowering your head, kissing the ground, and—for the rest—putting your trust i...

Luther on the importance of the fight at precisely the one position under assault

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"Neither is it of any help if someone would say, 'I will gladly confess Christ and His Word in every other article, except that I ...

"What [w]e mustn't do is say to [ourselves], 'God doesn't mind [the] sins of the flesh'"

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Andrea Solario, Wikimedia Commons      " Sometimes people who commit this sin [(here specifically adultery, but in the passage at l...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

"If you neglect to [reprove him], you are worse than he is."

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"But what about those who have suffered an injury, what ought they to do?   What we have heard in today’s gospel:   If your brother has...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

A Thomism as free of Thomas as Thomas himself was

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"St. Thomas' doctrine is a doctrine indefinitely progressive, and free of all save the true, free with respect to itself, to its ow...

Grace perfects nature by requiring it to die to itself

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     "The real does not appear in the same light in both cases.  The theologian declares that grace perfects nature and does not destro...

"beware of those brotherly dialogues in which everyone is in raptures while listening to the heresies, blasphemies, stuff and nonsense of the other"

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"But we would be making a mistake at least as serious in the opposite direction if, on the pretext of making this practical agreement ...