Saturday, October 24, 2020

"raw choice, autonomous choice, choice for its own sake and for private ends, uncoupled from any command."

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     "Our 'secular' saeculum has its own gospel. In it we announce choice itself, not choice about something. We announce raw c...

"One must belong to an ecumenical organization in order to fail to understand that Luther was a miserable confessionalist."

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"Es bedarf der Zugehörigkeit zu einer ökumenischen Organization, um nicht zu verstehen daß Luther ein elender Konfessionalist war....
Sunday, October 11, 2020

"Every article of faith is a principle in itself and does not need to be proved by another article."

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     Martin Luther at the Marburg Colloquy of 1529, according to  Hermann Sasse,  This is my body:  Luther's contention for the real pre...

'"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...