Saturday, August 11, 2018

"the proper effect of God [and God alone] is . . . esse [(existence)] without qualification"

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"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations.   What is it that breathes fire into the...

God is still incarnate

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"when the self-renunciation is removed by exaltation, the state of incarnation remains." "Illa intelligitur hic exinanitio...

The doctrine of the session of Christ (sessio Christi) is required by the perfection of his one sacrifice. Christ "s[its] down at the right hand of God" because "by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified."

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Obverse of an early 14th-century Bulgarian coin Heb 10:11-14: "And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again...
Friday, August 10, 2018

"Any physical theory of everything [will be] a thousand orders of magnitude away from a philosophical theory of everything."

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     Holmes Rolston III, Three big bangs:  matter-energy, life, mind (New York:  Columbia University Press, 2011), 13.

"The regions of our experience governed by force or active energy are . . . superficial in comparison with the silent informational depths of the universe."

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(To which "informational depths" the Word of the Triune God is not, however, to be reduced!)      John F. Haught, God after Da...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Performativity

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"divine scripture teaches us that we will only obtain this [(our greatest likeness to and union with God)] through the most loving obse...

What does the abbreviation "S. D. N. D.", common in papal bulls of the 16th century at least, stand for?

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Here's my first guess: ". . . S ancti(ssimi) D omini N ostri, D omini [Pii] . . ." (where the second and largely superflu...