Saturday, February 5, 2022

"Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom": A reasonably faithful pastiche

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"Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom. He wh...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Pseudo-Bonhoeffer: "One can't be a Christian and a nationalist at the same time."

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     Jean Lasserre, War and the gospel, trans. Oliver Coburn (London:  James Clarke & Co. Limited; Scottsdale, PA:  Herald Press, 1962 [...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

"an elevation of the [original] sense of the text"

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"Over against this [recent exegetical trend] stands the dogmatic heritage of church history [(der dogmengeschichtliche Befund)], accord...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Newman on Mary

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"It was not enough in accordance with that heresy to proclaim Him as having an ineffable origin before all worlds; not enough to place ...
Monday, January 24, 2022

"a greater hope"

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Yale Divinity School "Not everything can or should be made Christian, but too many peoples never got the chance to do that discerning w...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

A profoundly counter-cultural implication of Chalcedonian Christology

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     "Second, in personal realities all nature terms must be interpreted in a way that is in conformity with, but also not in oppositio...
Monday, January 17, 2022

"a man has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his own individual concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

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      Martin Luther King, Jr., "The three dimensions of a complete life," New Covenant Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, 9 April ...