Sunday, January 26, 2020

Sin boldly (Esto peccator et pecca fortiter)

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      Martin Luther, letter no. 424 to Philipp Melanchthon, 1 August 1521, WA Br 2, p. 372, l. 84 .  I was put onto the track of these famou...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

"Icons do with color what Scripture does with words"; or, more accurately, "That which the narrative declares in writing is the same as that which the icon [(ἡ ἀναζωγράφησις)] does [in colours]."

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"Modern viewers of art tend to see form in terms of line. . . . Gregory, however, expresses a late antique belief in the manifestation ...
Friday, January 17, 2020

"rule in all our hearts alone"

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Legacy Icons "Dirigere et sanctificare, regere et gubernare dignare, Dominus Deus, Rex caeli et terrae, hodie corda et corpora nostra, ...
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...