Liber locorum communium
Sunday, June 13, 2021
in purpose and performance
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"O God, strength of those who hope in you, graciously hear our pleas, and, since without you mortal frailty can do nothing, grant us al...
"the modern view combining relativism and progress . . . is incoherent."
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IVP "the modern view combining relativism and progress as widely understood is incoherent. A true relativism would assume that no worl...
Friday, June 11, 2021
Not even Zacharia Lilio
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Contra James J. Allegro, "What was in doubt at the end of the fifteenth century was not the spherical composition of the cosmos,...
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Sloth as "the ultimate cause of 'work for work's sake'"
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"At the zenith of the Middle Ages . . . it was held that sloth and restlessness, 'leisurelessness', the incapacity to enjoy lei...
Friday, May 28, 2021
"even His infirmity was the consequence of His power."
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"cuius et infirmitas fuit ex potestate." St. Augustine, City of God xiv.9, trans. Dods. Latin from CAG (428/83).
Scheeben on metaphysics
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"without metaphysics and speculation one cannot treat at all, worthily and exhaustively, things that by their nature belong to the high...
"For an animal such as man, what is natural is affirmed by culture." Or, perversely,
not
affirmed by culture.
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"money and the resurrection are opposed as two systems of possibility: the system of the virtual and the system of the living. I am u...
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