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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:53:41 -0600

"Human love, amor hominis, chooses what is attractive and present. Luther emphasized this clearly..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:33:50 -0600

“Human love, *amor hominis*, chooses what is attractive and present. Luther emphasized this clearly when, recalling Augustine, he stated: ‘The love of man comes into being through that which is pleasing to it’. The *amor crucis*, on the other hand, God’s love revealed in the cross of Jesus, discovers nothing attractive, only sin, so that God’s love first creates what is attractive by the act of love: ‘The love of God does not find, but creates that which is pleasing to it’ (Luther). The love of God, the *amor Dei*, is directed to the unlovable and the ugly and by the act of creative love makes them lovable and beautiful (‘sinners are attractive because they are loved, they are not loved because they are attractive’, Luther).”

- Eberhard Jüngel

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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:29:25 -0600

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"Father in heaven! Hold not our sins up against us but hold us up against our sins, so that the..."

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:52:57 -0600

“Father in heaven! Hold not our sins up against us but hold us up against our sins, so that the thought of thee, when it wakens, should not remind us of what we have committed but of what thou didst forgive, not of how we went astray but of how thou didst save us!”

- Kierkegaard (via)

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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:24:57 -0600

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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:51:38 -0600

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"I have the same letter from about six different people. One from Australia, one from Germany, one..."

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:02:35 -0600

“I have the same letter from about six different people. One from Australia, one from Germany, one from England, but they all said the same thing. They said, “I started reading your book after dinner and I finished it 3:45 the next morning, and I got up and went upstairs and I got my kids up and I just sat there in the bed and held them.””

- Cormac McCarthy, answering the question of what sort of responses his novel The Road has received from fathers (via @epjohnson)

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:12:59 -0600

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"…even the ravens I see on the top of a high tree from my seat here, though they do not do..."

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:52:00 -0600

“…even the ravens I see on the top of a high tree from my seat here, though they do not do ‘biblical work,’ … do not regard this work on christology as a good book.”

- Karl Barth, giving his take on this book in a letter to a friend

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"… the history of Christian theology within any culture can always be read as a sustained..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:57:30 -0600

“… the history of Christian theology within any culture can always be read as a sustained effort to dislocate that culture’s ‘common sense’.”

- Robert Jenson

"A proverb, one might say, is a ruin which stands on the site of an old story and in which a moral..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:31:53 -0600

“A proverb, one might say, is a ruin which stands on the site of an old story and in which a moral twines about a happening like ivy around a wall.”

- Walter Benjamin

"The mysteries of the world are of such a kind that some day they can cease to be mysteries. God is..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:30:56 -0600

“The mysteries of the world are of such a kind that some day they can cease to be mysteries. God is always a mystery.”

- Barth

"We should be inhuman where God is human, we should be ashamed of Jesus Christ Himself, were we..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:51:01 -0600

“We should be inhuman where God is human, we should be ashamed of Jesus Christ Himself, were we willing to be ashamed of the Church. What Jesus Christ is for God and for us, on earth and in time, He is as Lord of this community, as King of this people, as Head of this body and of all its members. He is all these with and in this inconspicuous, painfully divided, and otherwise very questionable Christendom. He is all these with, among, and in the Christians whom one can admire or even love only in the face of many serious difficulties. He is all these as the Reconciler and Redeemer of the whole world. He is all these, however, in the strange communion of these strange saints. The Church is not too mean a thing for him but, for better or for worse, sufficiently precious and worthy in His eyes to be entrusted with His witnessing and thus His affairs in the world—yes, even Himself. So great is God’s loving-kindness!”

- Karl Barth (in The Humanity of God)

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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:52:03 -0500

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"There is abundant chatter today about “being spiritual” but scarcely anyone believes that a person..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:35:08 -0500

“There is abundant chatter today about “being spiritual” but scarcely anyone believes that a person can be of troubled mind and healthy spirit. Nor can we fathom the idea that the happy wanderer, who is all smiles and has accomplished everything on his or her self-fulfillment list, is, in fact, a case of despair. But while Kierkegaard would have agreed that happiness and melancholy are mutually exclusive, he warns, “Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.””

- Gordon Marino (via fishfood)

"It’s drowning all your old rationalism and skepticism, it’s coming in like a sea…,..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:59:35 -0500

“It’s drowning all your old rationalism and skepticism, it’s coming in like a sea…, calling all the menagerie of polytheism…: dog Anubis and great green-eyed Pasht…, reeling back to the bestial gods of the beginning…. And all because you are frightened of four words, ‘He was made man.’”

- Chesterton’s Father Brown, reflecting on the curious upsurge of “spirituality” among moderns (in The Incedulity of Father Brown)

"The diamond light of another time had turned muddy, and the places that had once been mine and..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:26:51 -0500

“The diamond light of another time had turned muddy, and the places that had once been mine and sustained my memories were strange to me now.”

- Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

rake art photographed from a kite (more here, via this...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:10:09 -0500

rake art photographed from a kite (more here, via this collection of aerial photos) (HT: Ben Myers)

"I’ve often thought that Europe is an allegory for the ages of man. You’re born Italian. They’re..."

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:05:48 -0500

“I’ve often thought that Europe is an allegory for the ages of man. You’re born Italian. They’re relentlessly infantile and mother-obsessed. In childhood, we’re English: chronically shy, tongue-tied, cliquey, and only happy kicking balls, pulling the legs off things, or sending someone to Coventry. Teenagers are French: pretentiously philosophical, embarrassingly vain, ridiculously romantic and insincere. Then, in middle age, we become either Swiss or Irish. Old age is German: ponderous, pompous and pedantic. Then finally we regress into being Belgian, with no idea who we are at all.”

- A. A. Gill (found here, via NYT)

writing in the dust

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"Human love, *amor hominis*, chooses what is attractive and present. Luther emphasized this clearly..."

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"Father in heaven! Hold not our sins up against us but hold us up against our sins, so that the..."

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"I have the same letter from about six different people. One from Australia, one from Germany, one..."

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"…even the ravens I see on the top of a high tree from my seat here, though they do not do..."

"… the history of Christian theology within any culture can always be read as a sustained..."

"A proverb, one might say, is a ruin which stands on the site of an old story and in which a moral..."

"The mysteries of the world are of such a kind that some day they can cease to be mysteries. God is..."

"We should be inhuman where God is human, we should be ashamed of Jesus Christ Himself, were we..."

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"There is abundant chatter today about “being spiritual” but scarcely anyone believes that a person..."

"It’s drowning all your old rationalism and skepticism, it’s coming in like a sea…,..."

"The diamond light of another time had turned muddy, and the places that had once been mine and..."

rake art photographed from a kite (more here, via this...

"I’ve often thought that Europe is an allegory for the ages of man. You’re born Italian. They’re..."

"Human love, amor hominis, chooses what is attractive and present. Luther emphasized this clearly..."