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Friday, August 5, 2022

Every town its own translator

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"I wish every town would have its interpreter. . . ." "Utinam oppida singula interpretem suum haberent. . . ."      Mart...

"that most precarious of historical endeavors"

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"Though Cherokee gender identities and social roles came with a degree of malleability, there exists no documentary evidence to support...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

Burn those books, but not my Scotus!

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Luther's "original intention had been to include in the pyrotechnics a copy of Duns Scotus, as representative of the despised Schol...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Luther lenis

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"If we are seeking an explanation of why so many Germans were drawn to Luther, despite the wild, extravagant denunciations of the estab...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

nunquam reformanda

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CNA / Daniel Ibanez "After all, the Church is not the object of our reform. The Church is founded by Christ, cannot be reformed, is uns...

"the first book-burning of the Reformation era"

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"in the violent and destructive culture wars set off by the Reformation, it was the evangelicals who were the first to commit their opp...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

"and this, they say, and this, and this"

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St. John's College       "Our imaginations decay.  We decay.  Even books decay.  And we are all, finally, forgotten.  Yet at some p...
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