Sunday, October 11, 2020

'"The [ancient] catholic church was a confessional church whose harshness had nothing in common with the contemporary church of tolerance."

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"The 'Great Church' invented by [Bishop Bo] Giertz and A history of the ecumenical movement 1517-1948 [(London:  S.P.C.K., 1954...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

The good are afflicted with the wicked because they have failed to reprove them.

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"We tend culpably to evade our responsibility when we ought to instruct and admonish them, sometimes even with sharp reproof and c...

"The myth of medieval paganism"

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 "The idea that something called 'paganism' existed in medieval society as a mode of conscious resistance to Christianity has p...

"God's life is given just where the forms of a human life are simply what they are". And as a consequence, "what they are is always more than a human person can ever tell."

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     Ephraim Radner, A profound ignorance:  modern pneumatology and its anti-modern redemption (Waco, TX:  Baylor University Press, 2019), 2...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Luther on Christmas Day as the first day of the properly Christian New Year

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"Today is called New Year's Day according to the computation of the Romans, but for us  Christians, [the first day of the new year]...

Luther gets right to the point

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"On this day it is customary to distribute new year’s gifts from the pulpit, as if one did not have enough useful and beneficial matter...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

The great Christmas Proclamation (Kalenda)

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"The Twenty-fifth Day of December, when ages beyond number had run their course from the creation of the world, when God in the beginni...