Saturday, August 10, 2019

The times, they are unchanging

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robertdarnton.org/bio Robert "Darnton saw that the Enlightenment, viewed from the ground-level perspective of the S[ociété ]T[ypogr...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

"I do not think of political power as an end. Neither do I think of economic power as an end. They are ingredients in the objective which we seek in life. And I think that end or that objective is a truly brotherly society, the creation of the beloved community."

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"When I talk about power and the need for power, I’m talking in terms of the need for power to bring about the political and the econom...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

"The whole idea that Jesus . . . practiced 'radical hospitality' is . . . a modern ecclesial myth."

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"The whole idea that Jesus—who had 'nowhere to lay his head' (Luke 9:58)—practiced 'radical hospitality' is, I think, a...
Friday, August 2, 2019

"insofar as liberal principles seem to be needed to deal with actual pluralism, these same principles magnify their own necessity over time."

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"In fact, however, liberalism tends to see itself and pluralism precisely as such an absolute standard.   As Rawls puts it, pluralism ...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Man loves God not so as to refer God to himself, but rather himself to God

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"The part . . . love[s] the good of the whole . . . not . . . so as to refer the good of the whole to itself, but rather itself to the ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

"a cheap and easy way of being 'critical'"

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From Wikipedia "where once they sought to transmit to each new generation the wisdom of past ages, today most within the universiti...

No man. But God

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Truly no man can ransom himself, or give to God the price of his life [( אָ֗ח   לֹא־פָדֹ֣ה   יִפְדֶּ֣ה   אִ֑ישׁ   לֹא־יִתֵּ֖ן   לֵאלֹהִ֣ים  ...
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