"California — with its peerless density of crackpots per capita"

Meher Baba

      Pratinav Anil, "Spiritual snake oil:  a century of pseudo-enlightenment," a review of The nirvana express:  how the search for enlightenment went west, by Mick Brown, Times literary supplement no. 6302 (January 12, 2024):  4.

"that, having done thy will with cheerfulness while it was day, we may, when the night cometh, rejoice to give thee thanks"

"O GOD, the King eternal, who dividest the day from the night and turnest the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep thy law, and guide our feet into the way of peace; that, having done thy will with cheerfulness while it was day, we may, when the night cometh, rejoice to give thee thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen."

"O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning:  Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and guide our feet into the way of peace; that, having done your will with cheerfulness during the day, we may, when night comes, rejoice to give you thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen."

     William Reed Huntington, "For the Sunday before Easter," Materia ritualis: An appendix to a paper on "The revision of the [American] common prayer" in the American Church Review for April 1881 (1882), ___.  And on p. 594 of the 1928 and pp. 56 and 99 of the 1979 Book[s] of common prayer.  Hatchett, 126; Marshall, Prayer book parallels, vol. 1, p. 132,133.

"rebuke them in the presence of all"

"As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear."

Τοὺς ἁμαρτάνοντας ἐνώπιον πάντων ἔλεγχε, ἵνα καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ φόβον ἔχωσιν.

     1 Tim 5:20 RSV.

Please: No more liberal missionaries!

      "Miss [Dora/Cidu] Yü’s appeal to those who had any influence with Mission Boards, to do their utmost to stop the sending out of any more Modernist missionaries to her land will not easily be forgotten."

     W. H. Aldis, "The Keswick Convention," China’s millions 53 =n.s. 35 (September 1927):  142 (142-143).  This would have been Yu's address to the Keswick Convention[’s International Missionary Meeting?] on Wednesday afternoon, 20 July 1927.  I capture this here in case I never find the full-text.  For more detail on this, see Mark A. Noll & Carolyn Nystrom, Clouds of witnesses:  Christian voices from Africa and Asia (Downers Grove, IL:  IVP Books, 2011), 197-198:  Yu "particularly targeted teachings that opposed Christ's incarnation and divinity, his atoning work through death and resurrection, and his second coming."  See also The
Christian (London, England : 1870), July 28, 1927, p. 23, where there is another (mere) report, also focused on the terms Modernism and Modernist.  My thanks to my colleague Esther Cen for enlisting me in this search.

"our conception of humankind is too anthropomorphic"

"our conception of humankind is too anthropomorphic, too narrowly defined--as physical, mental, or moral--as moral, either damned or saved, but not as the overwhelming power we are as creature, as species", "collective[ly], collaborative[ly]."

     Marilynne Robinson, Reading Genesis (New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), 79-80.

McGuckin on the "axiom" hopou logos agei in Origen

      Where does this (presumably something like ὅπου λόγος ἄγει), or some semblance thereof, occur in Origen?  So far as I've been able to tell, McGuckin doesn't say.  McGuckin translations (there are others, as, for example, here):

• "'Follow wherever Holy Reason leads'"
  
• "'Let us go wherever the Divine Logos takes us'"
• "the soul must follow 'wherever the Logos leads'"

So far I've come up empty, even in Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, searched fairly loosely (though my Greek isn't really up to snuff), and McGuckin has yet to reply.

Faith, baptism, AND LIFE

"No one may share the eucharist with us unless he believes that what we teach is true, unless he is washed in the regenerating waters of baptism for the remission of his sins, and unless he lives in accordance with the principles given us by Christ [(καὶ οὕτως βιοῦντι ὡς ὁ Χριστὸς παρέδωκεν, unless they live as Christ handed [it] down)]."

     St. Justin Martyr (c. 100-c. 165), First apology 66.1, as trans. Second reading, Office of readings, Third Sunday of Easter, Liturgy of the hours, vol. 2, p. 694.  Greek from the 3rd (1876) ed. of the Opera ed. Otto, tom. 1, pars 1, p. 180, which matches p. 256 of the 2009 Minns & Parvis Oxford early Christian texts edition exactly.  Minns & Parvis translation:  "And this food is called among us 'eucharist', of which it is lawful for no one to partake except one believing the things that have been taught by us are true, and who has washed in the washing which is for the forgiveness of sins and for rebirth, and who lives in just the way that Christ handed down."  I have not read around in this (for context) recently, but something very similar is said in 61:  "Those who believe what we teach is true and who give assurance of their ability to live according to that teaching. . .  We then lead to" baptism.