Saturday, March 5, 2022

"This is the glory of man: to persevere and remain in the service of God."

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Orthodox Christianity       St. Irenaeus, Adv. haer. 4.13.14 (SC 100) =4.25.1 (Harvey), as translated in the Liturgy of the hours for the Of...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

"if the bed sprouted, not a bed but wood would come up"

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"man is born from man, but not bed from bed.  That is why people say that the figure is not the nature of a bed, but the wood is—if the...
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...