Sunday, November 29, 2020

"Go ye out to meet him and say"

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Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 390 (late 10th cent.), fol. 15 "Aspiciens a longe ecce video dei potentiam venientem et nebulam totam t...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

"a glittering cargo cult"

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emilyfoxgordon.com       "If [at 72] I were to take a religious turn, it would be toward Christianity.  But strait is the gate and narr...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Evolving towards and evolving out

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"this predicament was spiritually unstable, offering on one side motives not to go back to the earlier established faiths, and on the o...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

"the 'sciences' structured by the spill-over"

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 "Whereas the withdrawl from cosmic meanings is a move which is properly motivated by the nature of the reality which natural science s...
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...