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Friday, April 12, 2019
God is more, even, than physical survival
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"the moral calculus involved in balancing goods must respect a final limit. There are goods that are never subject to trade-offs. Th...
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Oscar Wilde, predator
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Trinity College, Dublin "although Wilde has long been acclaimed as a gay martyr and hero, he needs to be treated with care. "...
Bolshevik intolerance
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"'in conditions of fierce class struggle, in a large Party intimately connected to the broad masses, . . . the personal can become ...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
John Calvin's prayer before going to work
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Prayer [to be said before doing one's work] "Our good God, Father and Savior, since You have pleased to command us to work t...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Confirmation as administered by a born-again evangelical in a state church
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Given that "only a few" will "find the way to life," "the general confession [(das gemeinsame Bekenntnis)]" of...
Monday, March 25, 2019
Enlightenment
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The Ape. A Brief Fable. One night an ape set a grove | of cedars on fire, | a nd was then very pleased with himself, | a s he found ...
"true man": "the undiminished and perfect nature" that "the Creator established in us from the beginning" and assumed in order to restore
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"So the proper character of both natures [(Salva . . . proprietate utriusque naturae, the saving property of both natures)] was ma...
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