Posted from 2 addresses as Matthew Weber, *THAT* Matt Weber, palaeologos, Matt Weber
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Through faith in what, Himself? Christ is a hypostasis of divinity and humanity. It's correct to say that his power is not magical (i.e. granted him by some other, more powerful …
02 Oct 2014, 14:39
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Well, "settled" works also when you consider that redemption is all about buying back; one of the common soteriological models of the early Church was the idea of the ransom, that …
08 Apr 2013, 22:03
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Whether collectible or used doesn't really matter, I think. Under IOBA standards, anything that's ex-library *must* be flagged as such : http://www.ioba.org/pages/resources/condit…
22 Mar 2012, 16:44
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Jeff, a book sold in "good" or higher condition should not be defaced. A book with stamps, labels, and pasted-in card holders is "fair" condition at best.…
22 Mar 2012, 16:23
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Fred, there are Amazon Marketplace vendors that pull this crap all the time--listing books in "good" or "very good" condition when they've been defaced with library stamps, written…
22 Mar 2012, 16:22
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Lewis' theology, idiosyncratic? I'd characterize it as broadly catholic and orthodox, though I can see where the hyper-Reformed might have problems with it.…
15 Mar 2012, 23:26
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< -- The message is truncated. -- > Sent with Verizon Mobile Email ---Original Message--- I'm guessing you mean how do Typhon's soldiers shackle Severian if he could time-sp…
07 Nov 2011, 19:34
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I would say that "salvation," in Christianity, relates to the complete forgiveness of sins. Because of our sinfulness, we are condemned and Hell is our portion after death. The s…
14 Oct 2011, 20:41
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The ritual of the Torturers in which Catherine is beheaded is a reference to the martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria. Sentenced to be broken on the wheel, she was beheaded whe…
14 Oct 2011, 19:44
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No question. And the classification, postwar, of certain Americans as "premature anti-fascists" as well.…
18 Jan 2011, 18:02
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Somehow, I doubt this includes many of the countries that Japan invaded; I'd think they would remember all too well the way they were treated by their conquerors. The human cost o…
18 Jan 2011, 17:11
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Depends on where the missionaries came from--but I would guess for the most part they were from France, hence the Gallican Rite. The Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
14 Jan 2011, 00:54
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I'm sure there were plenty of Anselms around--but not St Anselm. I don't think there were any Saxon rites to speak of. It wasn't long before Charlemagne that the Franks were conv…
13 Jan 2011, 23:11
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:33 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote: Anselm and Urban reputely pulled out their lawn chairs to watch the Cathars---fellow Christians …
13 Jan 2011, 22:45
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I think it would be fairer to say that there has always been a tension between the tendency to interpret Scripture literally and the tendency to treat certain elements in it figura…
21 Dec 2010, 21:41
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Both good points, which I'll concede (I could discuss either at greater length, but I feel I'm already substantially digressing from topic).…
16 Dec 2010, 23:14
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That's funny; I was just thinking (after reading Dan'l's response) the same thing--that modern Judaism has been unalterably conditioned by the loss of the Temple and the dominance …
16 Dec 2010, 23:03
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To be sure, they weren't punished, but they weren't redeemed either--at least not until the Harrowing of Hell, no? Not since the end of the Second Temple, certainly. Point taken.…
16 Dec 2010, 22:51
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As far as evidence is concerned, the same sort of evidence exists for Jesus as exists for Socrates. There doesn't seem to be any good reason to assume he didn't exist, unless such…
16 Dec 2010, 22:43
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If I may (as one who does theology from time to time)... I'm trying to understand the sense in which David is using the term "grace". I find it difficult to separate from the con…
16 Dec 2010, 22:36
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The majority of the world's Christians pray to saints and angels to intercede for them in a variety of ways.…
16 Dec 2010, 18:46
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Except for the Elves' quasi-Marian devotion to Elbereth, of course. And Tom Bombadil as a genius loci (there's your Green Man, folks).…
16 Dec 2010, 18:05
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I would think that "rood" is used primarily to refer to a cross, or the Cross. The sense in which it means "rod" or "staff" is even more obscure than the Christian one. I have to…
16 Dec 2010, 18:03
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No, you're definitely onto something which is not bud here. The vertical meeting the horizontal is also a way of looking at the Incarnation. God, who exists outside of Time and e…
16 Dec 2010, 01:06
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The Incarnation can be seen in a number of different ways. According to St Gregory Nazianzen, the entrance of an incarnate God into his fallen creation has a ripple effect which g…
16 Dec 2010, 00:36
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That is precisely the case.…
16 Dec 2010, 00:18
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Quibble, irrelevant to this discussion, but : The Fatherhood & Sonship of the Father & Son are coeternal. The Son was the Son from eternity, as the Nicene Creed saith. "Father" …
16 Dec 2010, 00:16
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It's more how nobody who actually lives in San Francisco calls it "Frisco".…
15 Dec 2010, 22:36
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Christ is indeed "Very God of Very God," but Christ didn't alight upon himself in the form of a dove at his baptism, nor did he speak by ventriloquism "This is my beloved Son, in w…
15 Dec 2010, 22:35
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Christ is used exclusively in Christianity to refer to the second Person of the Trinity. Nobody refers to the Father or the Holy Ghost as Christ. Here's a handy photographic mnem…
15 Dec 2010, 21:39
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I really can't see how the text is suggesting such a thing any more than it's suggesting that Jonas is the ultimate and true, unified god of Briah. Happy to reconsider if I'm miss…
15 Dec 2010, 03:52
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"-witz" is a Germanized version of the Slavic suffix spelled variously as "-vic," "-wicz," "-vich," etc. It means "son of" or "family of" or "clan of". So I suppose that makes yo…
03 Dec 2010, 22:00
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I think it's very understandable when you relate the things Jesus was saying to the prophetic tradition. The criticisms he was making of the Temple and its establishment weren't r…
03 Dec 2010, 20:40
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2010/12/3 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> That's rather ironic coming from you, isn't it?…
03 Dec 2010, 18:59
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I didn't say *all* Protestants--I said liberal Protestants. Think of Unitarians, Quakers, the more radical forms of Congregationalism. Although having said that, there is a prett…
03 Dec 2010, 18:55
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2010/12/3 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> You'll find those teachings under the heading "The Old Testament". Enjoy. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kjv/browse.html Tha…
03 Dec 2010, 18:48
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2010/12/3 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com> Really? What did he say that his antecedents didn't? Christianity considers Jesus' acts of much higher importance than his…
03 Dec 2010, 18:33
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I think it's in *God in the Dock *where Lewis refers to this argumentative fallacy as "Bulverism".…
01 Dec 2010, 21:56
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Dear Russell : I call your attention to the following link, posted at the bottom of every damn message this list sends out : Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net Sendin…
23 Sep 2010, 22:32
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Andrew Mason <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com In the Eastern Orthodox liturgy, the (leavened) bread used in Communion is cut with a triangular-bl…
16 Sep 2010, 22:13
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Well, he *says* he found some gold tablets. But then, for some reason, he couldn't find them. Oops.…
03 Aug 2010, 17:24
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I wouldn't even say a halting assumption of Christian ethics; it's the influence of the late 19th-century construction of the innocence of childhood (of course, only middle- and up…
21 Jul 2010, 20:12
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I don't think so. "The mystical Body of Christ" is another way of saying "the Church"--but not the human institution, or any particular human institution. It's what the Book of C…
25 Jun 2010, 19:46
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Touatte.…
04 Jun 2010, 13:42
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I had always thought that Robert and Marie was a reference to some other work that I just wasn't getting. I'm not sure that Severian really learns that a constitutional representa…
04 Jun 2010, 04:02
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I completely agree--however, my agreement is coming from within orthodox Christianity, so it's far from academically disinterested! Many students of religion solve the problem of …
04 Jun 2010, 02:42
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That's one theory, certainly, but it's not uncontroversial even among comparative religionists. Judaism was constantly cheek-by-jowl with paganism, and there was a constant strugg…
19 May 2010, 23:18
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I don't think that's quite fair to Protestantism. There are still plenty of Protestants whose creedal orthodoxy is as sound as any Catholic's. Most of them aren't mainline Protes…
21 Dec 2009, 02:28
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This is a bit of a tangent, but I figured it was worth mentioning : I agree with you that clerical celibacy is a matter of discipline and not doctrine or dogma. The ordination of …
19 Dec 2009, 18:10
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Could you unpack what you mean by "transubstantiation"? Where I come from, the word is used to describe a theory of how the Real Presence in the Eucharist works; a theory couched …
19 Dec 2009, 03:57
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