Tuesday, October 8, 2019

"doxological contrition"

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"From my youth, O Saviour, I have rejected Thy commandments.   Ruled by the passions, I have passed my whole life in heedlessness and s...

"Joy to the world"

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"from its very beginning Christianity has been the proclamation of joy, of the only possible joy on earth.  It rendered impossible all ...
Saturday, October 5, 2019

"A church is a building meant for a purpose served by no building we know."

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     Richard Kieckhefer, Theology in stone:  church architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004), 69, on...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

"I have often heard of God's house but I never saw his barn before."

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     A "new arrival" at the sight of "the first church building in [Chicago]," the Presbyterian meeting house built on C...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Were all the kings on earth to show | their greatest pomp and power | the smallest leaf they could not grow, | nor graft it on a flower.

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Gik alle konger frem på rad i deres magt og vælde, de mægted ej det mindste blad at sætte på en nælde.       Hans Adolph Brorson, Salm...

The superficiality of the forgiveness of self

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"The 'pagans' know the examination of conscience, [which] consists in scrutinizing oneself in the light of norms, [an] exercise...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

Give me [not] thine hand?

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"a catholic spirit is not speculative latitudinarianism.  It is not indifference to all opinions.  This is the spawn of hell, not the ...