Friday, November 20, 2020

"what safeguards theology's truthfulness is not the exercise of critical scruple but the fear of the one who is the Church's Lord."

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     John Webster,  Holiness  (Grand Rapids, MI:  Eerdmans, 2003), 3.
Thursday, November 19, 2020

"God is not summoned into the presence of reason; reason is summoned before the presence of God."

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      John Webster, Holiness (Grand Rapids, MI:  Eerdmans, 2003), 17.  I was put onto this by Michael Allen, "Theological theology,...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

"It is a duty of faith for all Lutherans . . . to observe the restrictions on church communion with all [due] rigor themselves, and to judge all dispensations [from them] as sin and heresy. . . ."

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     "Es ist eine Glaubenspflicht für alle Lutheraner . . . selbst die Grenzen der Kirchengemeinschaft in aller Strenge zu beobachten u...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

The church catholic

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Vatican Museums "I am a disciple of the chaste shepherd, who feedeth his flocks of sheep on mountains and plains. . . .  He sent me to ...

"there cannot properly be 'inter-communion'"

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     "Catholic theology has become progressively more aware of what was implied by this unity of the Church-as-Communion [( Heilsgemein...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

"The Spirit's [only] grace is to order our 'surrender'"

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. . . to, among other things, "sheer dependence and hence lack of possession and of certainty" (265); to contingency, creaturehood...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

"Let us bless the Father, and the Son, with the Holy Spirit. Let us praise and exalt him above all forever."

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 121, 312 (960-970) "Benedicamus Patrem et Filium cum Sancto Spiritu; laudemus et superexaltemus eum...