Friday, January 23, 2026

"little of what was once thought distinctive about the nature of the church in Celtic lands is any longer accepted"

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University of Glasgow "The idea of a Celtic church has its roots in the Reformation.  For Protestants, the early Celtic saints embodied...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

"When some one inquired which were more in number, the living or the dead, [Anacharsis] rejoined, 'In which category, then, do you place those who are on the seas?'"

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      Diogenes Laertius, Lives of eminent philosophers I.8 (Anacharsis).103-105, trans., R. D. Hicks, Loeb classical library, vol. 1 (Cambri...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

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"'Think of all the great songs and epics you have known and the men who wrote them. And think how few of them, how very few, were e...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Creative single agency, redemptive double agency

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   "Obj. 6: Further, man is justified by virtue. But Augustine commenting on Jn. 15:11: He shall do greater things than these, says: He...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

"in us love is set in order by virtue"

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" per virtutem enim ordinatur amor in nobis. "      St. Thomas Aquinas, following St. Augustine, Summa theologiae I-II.55.1.ad 4, ...

The person who does the right thing habitually is more admirable than the one who manages to do it occasionally

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"We are said to merit . . . in two ways.  First, . . . by merit itself . . . [i.e.] acts [( merit by meriting )].  Secondly, . . . by t...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

Determinatively, i.e. not just privatively, evil

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"the evil that constitutes a difference of habits is not [the] pure privation [common to every fallen being], but something determinate...