Saturday, July 3, 2021

Zenas, "a person 'skilled in the Law par excellence, the Torah, even the whole OT'"

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     Reidar Hvalvik, "Named Jewish believers connected with the Pauline mission," in Jewish believers in Jesus:  the early centuri...
Friday, July 2, 2021

"the one-cell human embryo has, right then and there, radical capacities, to think, talk, and laugh, which a frog embryo simply lacks. And these radical capacities are the rational foundation of human equality."

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law.nd.edu "human beings always have radical ­capacities that animals of other kinds never have. It is a sober truth—more and more inte...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Rerum, Deus, tenax vigor

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Rerum, Deus, tenax vigor, immotus in te permanens, lucis diurnae tempora successibus determinans, largire clarum vespere, | largire lumen ve...
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...