Saturday, October 31, 2020

The "It's a drama/entertainment, not a documentary" defense

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"Do these fantastical entertainments matter?  And what do they say about Churchill—or about us?  There is a standard defense that such ...

"My grace is sufficient for you"

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"where one is heading—somewhere else—cannot exhaust the divine truth of the present.  'Here' cannot only be a pneumatic moment...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit. . . .

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Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit; the sun does not shine on itself and flowers do not spread their frag...
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...