Friday, July 26, 2019

"a cybernetic destiny requiring the devaluation and revaluation of all values"

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"When we represent technology to ourselves as an array of neutral instruments, invented by human beings and under human control, we are...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

"Aquinas's three-layered lore of the passions" considered as, in fact, "the touchstone of all morality"

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"To begin to see what the gifts of the Holy Spirit are and something of the way in which Aquinas's ethical theory is meant to work,...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

"abstract 'values' having no unique, historical referent"

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"If we take human historicity seriously, then we must concede that the historical origin of the sacraments has determined these unive...

Is there really anything new under the sun?

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"we have heard to our annoyance that divine affairs have come to such a low state that women are encouraged to officiate at the sacred ...

The Procrustean bed of the modern theology of religious language

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"How far is it possible, in the words of the Good News Bible, ‘to use language that is natural, clear, simple, and unambiguous,’ whe...
Monday, July 22, 2019

"Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s grief; it takes away today’s strength."

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". . . worrying is carrying tomorrow’s burden with today’s strength.  It’s carrying two days at once. . . .      "I read somewher...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

"the simple expedient of building"

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"Rules and exhortations do help, but physical means are far more fundamental.   It is hard to see that a church which is cold, hard a...