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According to a traditional Jewish proverb, what God asks at the Judgement.
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“What He did not assume, He did not heal.” Gregory Nazianzen, -letter to Cledonius Cappadocian response to Appollonarian Christology, which tried to solve the problem of the unity of the Incarnate Logos by omitting the humanity.
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Note: the link is broken. So I don’t know who the writer is. TCS Daily – We the Sheeple? Why Conspiracy Theories Persist The Hermeneutics of Suspicion This is, in fact, part of why the medievals had the respect for authority that they did. They by no means believed in following authority “blindly” – indeed,…
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“An explained thing, except for very resolute thinkers, is almost inevitably ‘explained away’. Speaking generally, it may be said that the demand for explanation is due to the desire to be rid of mystery.” __________, The Seventeenth Century Background, p.14 “To know a thing is to recognize its first cause.” Charles Williams (Preface to History…
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No doubt I have learned a lot from Hollywood. Please do not think I completely despise it, because I don’t. The best proof of that may be that every producer I have worked for I would work for again, and every one of them, in spite of my tantrums, would be glad to have me.…
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Thinklings » Blog Archive » Real Men Don’t Complain. They Fix.
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…Origin and many of the Greek fathers elaborated a thesis that played a great role as the first centuries of Christianity unfolded, that of Satan duped by the Cross. Satan means the same in this formulation as those St. Paul names as the “princes of this world.” In Western Christianity this thesis has not met…
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Giroux talks about getting Seven Story Mountain into print. In the process he quotes the opening lines, one of the best openings in literature. I wish I could find the rest of the opening paragraph… “On the last day of January 1915, under the sign of the Water Bearer, in a year of a great…
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No need to wonder what heron-haunted lake lay in the other valley, or regret the songs in the forest I chose not to traverse. No need to ask where other roads might have led, since they led elsewhere; for nowhere but this here and now is my true destination. The river is gentle in the…
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People are abandoning all belief in an eternal existence, and accepting the scientific materialism that tells them there is nothing after this life. So they stop having babies. But the same scientific materialism constantly interprets all urges, impulses, and processes as the drive to pass on genes, subliminated. So, you’d think that as as we…
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Lewis’ religion was reduced to the only level Hollywood can muster: vague ramblings about “faith” and “God” and “another realm”. And since there was little actual Christianity, there was little intellectual content to Lewis’ character, and so the screenwriters had no raw material for the fierce friendly swordplay we associate with the Inklings. Take…
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So we’ll live, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies… And take upon’s the mystery of things, As if we were God’s spies.
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“He was ever precise in promise-keeping.” William Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Scene 2 (From the text of Clark and Wright.)
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First Things » Blog Archive » One College That’s Getting It Right Like many of us reading these pages, I was in the middle of that spring migration known as “bringing the kid home from college for the summer break” (and, we hope, the summer job). My daughter and I were having breakfast at the…
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Any time anyone says something comlimentary about David Bentley Hart, I know I am in the presence of discernment. In this case, he is his usual brilliant self on a subject that most preachers foul up immensely. Sage – Faith and Theology Faith and Theology: Explaining evil? David Bentley Hart’s little book on theodicy, The…
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I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. Whem the short day is brightest, with frost and fire, The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches, In windless cold that is the heart’s heat, Reflecting in a watery mirror A glare that…
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A single clear idea, well fed, moves like a contagious disease: “Physical work is wrong.” Many people besides [D.H. Lawrence] took up that idea, and in the next generation that split between fathers and sons deepened. A man takes up desk work in an office, becomes a father himself, but has no work to share…
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I didn’t realize how much the two world wars were really the same war, with 20 years of Germany re-arming in between. So much horror visited on the human race by one culture. The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
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Theolog: Blogging toward Sunday Blogging toward Sunday By William H. Willimon Hosea 1:2-10, Luke 11:1-13 Sunday, July 29 Jesus was praying one day when his disciples interrupted him, begging, “Teach us to pray like John taught his disciples.” Jesus graciously obliged them, giving them a succinct prayer. “When you pray, do it like this….” Prayer,…
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HaloScan.com – Comments So they say. If only someone had found a way of demonstrating that unity and multiplicity were in some way equally fundamental to reality, however paradoxical that might seem. Say, for example, that the whole shebang – life, the universe, everything! – had been made by Somebody whose very nature embraced both…
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Power Line In my judgment, the most destructive thing that any government can do, second only to hauling its citizens out of their beds and having them shot, it to endeavor to fix prices. The folly of price controls is as well established as heliocentrism, and, when a populace is ignorant on this basic point…
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Vade Retro Satana. Numquam suade mihi vana. Sunt mala quae libas. Ipse venena bibas. Crux sacra sit mihi lux. Non draco sit mihi dux. (Begone Satan! Suggest not vain things to me. Evil is the cup you offer. Drink the poison yourself. May the Holy Cross be my light. Let not the dragon be my…
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posted at Boar’s Head Tavern: About 30 years ago I was stunned when I read Watchman Nee argue that there is simply no biblical basis for dividing the church for any reason other than geography. Nee has been demonized in some evangelical quarters, but read his vision of overcoming denominationalism by working together in practical…
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Occasionally a writer captures big things in a few words, and that’s fun. So “Pirate”, at Boar’s Head Tavern, tells us everything we need to know about the Flower Generation, which has not yet died, but is working at it: The Barth’s Head Tavern » Blog Archive » I’m Feeling Pessimistic So sometime in the…
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Excellent article on rich environmentalists who want to keep third world villages “quaint”. Townhall.com::Enemies of the Poor::By Roy Innis Why haven’t the UN and its Human Rights Council spoken out about the institutional racism that is being perpetrated in the name of “saving the planet”? Where are the US civil rights groups, news media and…
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http://www.incharacter.org/article.php?article=119 The habit of public apology for things for which one bears no personal responsibility changes the whole concept of a virtuous person, from one who exercises the discipline of virtue to one who expresses correct sentiment. The most virtuous person of all is he who expresses it loudest and to most people. This is…
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LRB | Terry Eagleton : Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. See also Stephen Barr: FIRST THINGS: On the Square
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girl talk I think moms need to stop apologizing for doing a full time job full time! I am not going to state that all moms must be stay at home moms but for those who are, they must stop feeling inferior for their decision. I am tired of the mentality that is becoming more…
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normblog: The need to know what we do know We have too much evidence that given the freedom, the licence, to kill and do other terrible harms, there are enough people who enjoy using it. I’ve argued this at some length here. A passage I quote from David Rousset, who was imprisoned at Buchenwald: Normal…
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“The worst thing that can happen to a person who is already divided up into a dozen different compartments is to seal off yet another compartment and tell him that this one is more important than all others, and that he must henceforth exercise a special care in keeping it separate from them. That is…
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“If I can unite in myself the thought and the devotion of Eastern and Western Christendom, the Greek and the Latin Fathers, the Russians with the Spanish mystics, I can prepare in myself the reunion of divided Christians. From that secret and unspoken unity in myself can eventually come a visible and manifest unity of…
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When the full fields begin to smell of sunrise And the valleys sing in their sleep, The pilgrim moon pours over the solemn darkness Her waterfalls of silence, And then departs, up the long avenue of trees. The stars hide, in the glade, their light, like tears, And tremble where some train runs, lost, Baying…
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“Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints. They never succeed in being themselves…”
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“But you shall taste the true solitude of My anguish and My poverty and I shall lead you into the high places of My joy and you shall die in Me and find all things in My mercy which has created you for this end, and brought you from Prades to Bermuda to St. Antonin…
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Note: these links are now dead, after several years. Societas Christiana » Tim Enloe: Reformed Polemicist, R.I.P. I never heard of this guy till I stumbled across this post today. I love this so much I just want to memorialize it here, and extract a few quotes that are particularly well-stated. The bold is…
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Some people read things I’ve written and may miss the irony, sarcasm, or some other tone. They wonder if I’ve become a zen jedi druid or something. For the record and for anyone who cares, here is what I believe until another memo is officially issued: I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker…
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Touchstone Magazine – Mere Comments: All Flattened Things are Equal In academe, it is simply assumed by almost everybody that sex differences are at most superficial. To quote a coarse and not terribly perceptive female member of the Army: “The only thing the men can do that the women can’t do is urinate through a…
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Touchstone Magazine – Mere Comments: All Flattened Things are Equal All Flattened Things are Equal…how can Christians fail to see that equality and hierarchy are not necessarily contradictory, seeing that they have the examples of the obedience of the Son to the Father, and of the inner life of the Trinity itself? Which brings me…
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Villainous Company: To Love, Honor, And Cherish “It is often said that great achievement requires in one’s formative years two teachers: a stern taskmaster who teaches the rules and an inspirational guru who teaches one to break the rules. But they must come in that order. Childhood training in Bach can prepare one to play…
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Theology and Mysticism in the Tradition of the Eastern Church, by Vladimir Lossky …we must live the dogma expressing a revealed truth, which appears to us as an unfathomable mystery, in such a fashion that instead of assimilating the mystery to our mode of understanding, we should, on the contrary, look for a profound change,…
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