Wednesday, January 8, 2020

"the need for renewed attention to particularity in Methodist theology"

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Since " The expulsion of B.T. Roberts and others from the Genesee Conference", " Methodism . . . has tended to be more comfor...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

Satisfy our just desires

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"Lord our God, we humbly ask you, that, through the working of this mystery, our offences may be cleansed and our just desires fulfille...
Saturday, January 4, 2020

"But what one cannot do . . . is found their authority upon the authority of the Magisterium"

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"Tradition and Scripture alone contain [(Mais cela n'empêche pas la Tradition et l'Écriture de contenir seules)] the revelati...

"Harnack is in error on" the Hellenization of Christianity. "ignorance of ontology is ignorance of Christ."

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"from a historical and biblical point of view [the claim that the 'biblical, ethical Christology' of scripture was unfortunatel...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Grant, we pray, that we may feel her to [be] interceding for us

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. . . grant, we pray, that we may sense [(sentiamus)] her to [be] interced[ing] for us, through whom we were found worthy to receive the aut...

You who are "not an appraiser of merit, but a bestower of grace"

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. . . to whose fellowship grant us, we pray, admittance, [you who are] not an appraiser of merit [(aestimator meriti)], but a (liberal) be...

"Liberals have learned, at fearful cost, the lesson that absolute power corrupts absolutely. They have yet to learn that absolute liberty may also corrupt absolutely."

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Source       Gertrude Himmelfarb, On liberty and liberalism:   the case of John Stuart Mill (New York:   Knopf, 1974), as quoted by Pe...