Dec
22
Take Back What is Ours
December 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There is a movement afoot to get Holy Wisdom returned to the Christians (see the website here). It’s tilting at windmills, but it’s a great idea, and one cannot help but hope and pray for it, even while knowing that the Turks will never let it happen.
Dec
22
Just What Is the Principle of the Development of Doctrine, Anyway?
December 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment
In a singularly unhelpful comment on the running dialogue regarding the Principle of the Development of Doctrine (PDD), one reader suggested that, if I am right about development being Non-ampliative, then we might as well replace the Magisterium with a computer. To say such a thing is to simultaneously misunderstand the nature of deductive reasoning [...]
