Bruce Marshall on theology’s use of philosophy In his quaestiones on Boethius’s De Trinitate Aquinas asks, as he does on several occasions, whether “philosophical arguments and authorities” can be used in theology – “faith’s science about God.” One of the objectors observes that in scripture the wisdom of the world is often represented by water, […]
John Webster on Barth on self-knowledge The earlier parts of CD III/2 devote much space to securing one conviction which is basic to Barth’s anthropology and ethics: the conviction that because human persons cannot be defined remoto gratia, apart from the covenant of grace which is the creature’s end, attempts to reach self-definition through self-reflection yield only delusion. […]
What we do is more fundamental than what we accomplish. from TBD Trust is the Christian way of life. from Things That Count (ISI Books, 2000), 200, emphasis original. We are ultimately not makers but responders. from Things That Count (ISI Books, 2000), 158. The Christian life is supposed to be in large part learning […]
Austin Farrer on charity Now here’s the only thing I want to say to you in this sermon — that nothing will so much commend the gospel of God as charitable kindness: and that Christians ought to be found thrusting in wherever there’s kindness to be done, not bothering whether their fellow-workers or even those […]
Austin Farrer on a picture of the Eucharist A learned colleague who shall be nameless was giving me a description of the way in which some Eastern Christians worship God. ‘The best way to describe it,’ he said, ‘is to call it a sort of spiritual air-raid drill. The divine presence is the point of […]
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