December 2011
16 posts
“Let us, then, meditate upon the Nativity just as we see it happening in our own...”
– Martin Luther (via wesleyhill)
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We Are Incapable of Telling
“God is in himself replete, unoriginal love, the reciprocal fellowship and delight of the three and the utter repose and satisfaction of their love. God requires nothing other than himself. Yet his unoriginal love also originates. Why this should be so, we are incapable of telling, for though with much concentration we can begin to grasp that it is fitting that God should so act, created...
Exiled Preacher: Blogging in the name of the Lord:... →
Googling oneself is rarely a helpful exercise, but since I know hardly anyone reads this blog, I thought I’d make a count using the link: limiter.
To my shock, I found a 2009 interview by Guy Davies in the UK with Westminster professor of church history R. Scott Clark, linked to in the post. In the interview about blogging, Dr. Clark kindly said that this blog was one of the five that is...
“Here’s a thing I will say now without hesitation, unqualified and important. The...”
– Peter Hitchens on his brother Christopher (via ayjay)
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‘Credo In’ Means that I Am Not Alone
“It is noteworthy that, apart from this first expression ‘I believe,’ the Confession is silent upon the subjective fact of faith. Nor was it a a good time when this relationship was reversed, when Christians grew eloquent over their action, over the uplift and emotion of the experience of this thing, which took place in man, and when they became speechless as to what we may believe. By the silence...
The Church Cannot Be an Elite in the World
“Pelagianism was an onslaught on the languid, second-rate Christianity which blurred the line between a conventional Christian and the ordinary, pagan Roman. ‘God wished his people to be holy and free from all injustice an iniquity. He wished it to be so, so devout, so pure, so immaculate, so innocent, that the heathen might find nothing to revile in it’; a Christian whose conduct is...
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A Silent But Beneficent Machine
Sorry about the length, but this passage from Charles Taylor is incredibly insightful and goes a long way to helping us understand why most of us can no longer easily “delight in the works of His hands.”:
“Here another supremely important aspect of this whole dimension of human thinking comes to the fore. The framework, the meaning of being, is relative not just to a vision of the world, but also...
“Comedy … is not only possible within a Christian society, but capable of a much...”
– W. H. Auden (via ayjay)
