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Blog on Medieval Manuscripts
December 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment
If, like me, you have a love for medieval culture, you should check out PECIA, a blog on medieval manuscripts. There are lots of pretty pictures there for the folks who can’t read French.
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Devopment of Doctrine East and West
December 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Update. In deference to my Orthodox readers, whom I greatly respect and whose good wishes I earnestly seek, I have changed my characterization of Fr. Reardon’s position. My initial description was written in haste and with insufficient sensitivity. Thanks to reader Rob Grano for bringing this matter to my attention.
There’s an interesting and important post [...]
Dec
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Some Notes on the Fall
December 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment
In doing some preparatory work towards a major posting on original sin, I came across the following passage, which expresses ideas with which I am completely comfortable:
God gave Adam free will–the power to choose between good and evil–and it therefore rested with Adam either to accept the vocation set before him or to refuse it. [...]
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Daniel Dennett, Black Knight
December 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Usually when I take my son to the orthodontist the waiting around time is kept to a bare minimum. I’ve never seen a Soviet factory plan deployed so well in an American medical establishment. It reminds one of the stories one used to hear of the assembly-line laser eye surgeries done in Moscow not too [...]
