“. . . the fall is essentially distinct from the creation itself. Sin is a phenomenon whose possibility was indeed given in the creation of finite, mutable beings, but whose reality could only be called into being by the will of the creature. It is a power that does not belong to the essential being… [Read more…]
November 3, 2010
“Xavier, though the sign on your door indicates that you’re a priest, the fact is that you’re really a magician. You claim to be able to share the message of salvation with people — a message found in, and transmitted through a book for which you have apparently little respect. The Bible is the bridge… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
“There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or for what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature that every fiber of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
“The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself. The consciousness of being hunted, snared, tracked down, had begun to dominate him. If the tapestry did but tremble in the wind,… [Read more…]
September 16, 2010
“I see no more than you, but I have trained myself to notice what I see.” Arthur Conan Doyle, His Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, ”The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier” in The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 (New York: B&N Classics, 2003), 517.
August 3, 2010
”I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” in The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I (New York: B&N Classics, 2003), 189.
December 8, 2010
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