Thursday, January 29, 2026

"Dominus illuminatio mea"

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"We should then in the fullest sense not only with our voice but with our very soul cry out, The Lord is my light and my salvation; who...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

"Motivations for positing 'Celtic Christianity'"

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Source  "[2] A vision of 'Celtic Christianity' which was not so [1] determined by denominational politics was promulgated by th...
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, ...