Saturday, June 27, 2020

"for this reason did the Word. . . . reveal . . . God to men through many dispensations, lest man, falling away from God altogether, should cease to exist."

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      St. Irenaeus, Adv. haer. IV.xx.7, trans. Roberts & Rambaut (ANF 1)  = IV.xxxiv.7 in ed. Harvey (Cambridge University Press, 1857),...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Arian fundamentalism

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"The Homoeans represented a simple and to a large extent even simplistic biblicism." "Die Homöer vertraten einen schlichten...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

"Fear of scholasticism is the mark of a false prophet."

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"Die Furcht vor der Scholastik ist das Kennzeichen des falschen Propheten."      Karl Barth, CD I/1, 279 = KD I/1, 296. At no ...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

"The family is the primary obstacle to an ethic of choice, and so a primary target of genuinely radical liberal revolutionaries."

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     Yuval Levin, channeling Edmund Burke.   The great debate:  Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the birth of right and left (New York:  Basi...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

God is still incarnate

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"He is very God and has ascended into the heavens and taken his seat at the Father’s right hand in glory, not by discarding his body bu...
Friday, June 19, 2020

"In the groves of their academy, at the end of every visto, you see nothing but the gallows."

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      Edmund Burke,  Reflections on the revolution in France  (1790), 2 nd  ed. (London:  J. Dodsley, 1790), 126-127 .  According to the O...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

"do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field"

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"Because half a dozen grashoppers [ sic ] under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great ca...