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the judge who lays claim to them all. Just as his appearance in the desert, the entire history of Judge Holden is strange; in fact, he seems to not have a past so much as to endlessly recur. At one point the gang returns to Chihuahua to
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“He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.”
― Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
― Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
“I asked the late great German novelist Heinrich Böll what the basic flaw was in the German character. He said, “Obedience.” ***”
― Timequake
― Timequake
“The never-angered person is morally deficient.”
― Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God
― Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God
“There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.”
― The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
― The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
“Habitus, then, is a kind of compatibilism. As a social being acting in the world, I’m not an unconstrained “free” creature “without inertia”; neither am I the passive victim of external causes and determining forces. Neither mechanical determinism nor libertarian freedom can really make sense of our being-in-the-world because our freedom is both “conditioned and conditional.” Both our perception and our action are conditioned, but as conditioned, it is possible for both to be spontaneous and improvisational. I learn how to constitute my world from others, but I learn how to constitute my world. The “I” that perceives is always already a “we.” My”
― Imagining the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): How Worship Works
― Imagining the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): How Worship Works
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