June 2012
43 posts
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“From Rowan [Greer] I learned to distrust the accounts of the debates surrounding...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir.
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“The presumption of many scholars at the time was that the task of theology was...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir.
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“Every conflict hath its beginning either in covetousness, or envy, or vainglory....”
– St. John Chrysostom, Homily XIV on Philippians 4:4-7, Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
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“When [Christ] tells us to be at peace with our enemies, with those who treat us...”
– St. John Chrysostom, Homily XIV on Philippians 4:4-7, Homilies on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.
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“It is on good ground that he calls it the peace of God, inasmuch as it does not...”
– John Calvin, Commentary on Philippians 4:7.
May 2012
37 posts
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“I read as much Kierkegaard as I could get my hands on. I was sure Kierkegaard...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir.
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“My father understood that the world was changing; and therefore he never wanted...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir.
As mentioned in a previous post, I hadn’t read enough Hauerwas lately (in that post I said that I hadn’t read ANY Hauerwas since college, but forgot that I recently re-read God, Medicine & Suffering). So I picked...
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“The Christian gospel has sometimes been made the tool of an imperialism, and of...”
– Lesslie Newbigin (via azspot)
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“…we may say in summary that [the chief mark and element of insanity] is...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy.
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“Everywhere we see that men do not go mad by dreaming. Critics are much madder...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy.
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“Once I remember walking with a prosperous publisher, who made a remark which I...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy.
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“It is not power, but love that redeems us! This is God’s sign: he himself is...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, “Mass for the Inauguration of the Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI” (via invisibleforeigner)
“for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him,...”
– Romans 1:21 & 22. The reverse must also be true. Honoring and thanking God leads to clear thinking. In other words, knowledge springs from a foundation of faith, which the Apostle Paul discusses earlier in the first chapter of his epistle to the Roman church.
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“The climax of [Alain] Badiou’s gloss on [I Cor 1:20b-25] is, “It is...”
– Daniel Boyarin, “Paul Among the Antiphilosophers; or, Saul Among the Sophists” in St. Paul Among the Philosophers.
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“Paul seldom makes direct claims to certain knowledge about God, a point as well...”
– Dale B. Martin, “Teleology, Epistemology, and Universal Vision in Paul,” in St. Paul Among the Philosophers.
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“[Jonathan Haidt] became more and more convinced that our morality flows from our...”
– R.R. Reno, “Our One-Eyed Friends” in First Things, June/July, 2012.
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“For classical theology, therefore, no phenomenon, whether of nature or of...”
– David S. Yeago, “Modern but Not Liberal” in First Things, June/July, 2012.
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“I think this quest for certainty that really drives [Descartes’...”
– Mark Linsenmayer on episode 2 of the Partially Examined Life. I’m a late comer to PEL, having started listening at episode 44. As I keep up with the podcast, I’ve started listening to old episodes, especially those on epistemology, which interests me more of late as I’ve been...
“If we know and believe that He is present everywhere and at all times, and if we...”
– Elder Thaddeus of Serbia (via theophilus79, orthodoxprayer)
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Announcing my new book: Preaching After God:... →
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“Should graduate students (in theology) stop blogging?
John Milbank: Oh...”
– At 20:20 of Breathing Space, episode #2 of the Theology Studio podcast. This comment came in the midst of a very thoughtful discussion between Milbank and the podcast hosts about maintaining fidelity to the faith tradition while also speaking to contemporary issues. Milbank thinks graduate students...
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“Yea, I still account both all these and all things else to be mere loss,...”
– John Wesley’s Notes on Philippians 3:8.
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“God comes in at the end, not to answer riddles, but to propound them. The other...”
– G.K. Chesterton, Introduction to the Book of Job. Quoted by Slavoj Zizek in From Job to Christ: A Paulinian Reading of Chesterton, in St. Paul among the Philosophers.
WatchInternational Symposium on Saint Maximus the Confessor
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“For Paul, the relation to God is not to know but to be known by the Other, that...”
– Alain Badiou, St. Paul, Founder of the Universal Subject in St. Paul Among the Philosophers.
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“…Paul’s fundamental conviction is that the contrary of sin is not...”
– Alain Badiou, St. Paul, Founder of the Universal Subject in St. Paul Among the Philosophers.
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“Our question is then, Where and how can we hold forth that universal...”
– Alain Badiou, St. Paul, Founder of the Universal Subject in St. Paul Among the Philosophers.
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“…there are two kinds of justice: one is moral justice; the other is legal...”
– Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians.
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“[Paul] says, therefore: Whatever gain I had, i.e., prestige, namely, to be a...”
– Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians.
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“…[Paul] shows the confidence he could have had in the things of the Law,...”
– Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians.
“The principles and teachings of republicanism and Christianity were far more...”
– Prairie Republic: the Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889 by Jon K. Lauck.
