Saturday, August 18, 2018

"mak[ing] hay of our marginal status"

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Having lost their nerve and "settled for the least epistemic status possible" ("the possibility of mere true belief"), ...

"Was ever another command so obeyed?"

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     "Was ever another command so obeyed? For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every ...

Two different keyboards

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"The error of antiquity was to believe that the functioning of thought and the conceptual lexicon proper to the philosophy of nature ex...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

"No one who has gratitude is the onliest one."

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     "We measure time by its deaths, yes, and by its births.  For time is told also by life.  As some depart, others come.  The hand op...
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...