Saturday, August 15, 2020

"Revolution begins from an act of falsification"

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"the first concern of revolutionary movements on the left has been to capture the language, to change reality by changing the way we de...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Was Christ the cause of his own Resurrection?

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"in consequence of death[, which is the separation of soul from body and body from soul,] Christ's Godhead was not separated [(se...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Sin as both aversio and conversio

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"Punishment is proportionate to sin. Now sin comprises two things. First, there is the turning away from the immutable good [(aversio a...

May my enemies get everything this world has to offer. But give me the beatific vision.

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Arise, O Lord! confront them, overthrow them!     Deliver my life from the wicked by thy sword, from men by thy hand, O Lord,     from me...
Friday, August 7, 2020

"one of the fattest spiders at the heart of the web of muddled not-quite-thinkable-thoughts and evidence-free assertions of limitless scope, which practitioners of theorrhoea have woven into their version of the humanities."

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     Raymond Tallis, "The shrink from hell," a review of Jacques Lacan (New York:  Columbia University Press, 1997), by Elizabeth ...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

"Marriages are contracted for always, not for ever."

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"Ehen werden für immer geschlossen, nicht für ewig."      Bernd Wannenwetsch,  Die Freiheit der Ehe,  299, as quoted by Chris...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

"error concerning creatures . . . spills over into false opinion about God".

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"the opinion is false of those who asserted that it made no difference to the truth of the faith what anyone holds about creatures, so ...