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§41.1 Creation, History, and Creation History. This section would drive the inerrantists crazy but it's obviously right, and more Christian.

A pleasure to read such fine writing

§40 Faith in God the Creator. Certainly one of the overly verbose sections.

Me: "wow, how is this not a movie?"
*searches it up on letterboxd*
John Travolta: "hello"

Yeesh, I wish I could write like this

§26.2 Knowability of God: Readiness of Man
– a pretty 'meh' section until the excursus on article 1 of the Barmen Declaration, which is pure fire

§26.1 Knowability of God: Readiness of God

Murdoch's prose is delightful

It's good but long and I am slowing down

Fluid writing and patient worldbuilding

"It is hard, I found, to be called a traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man; a name that sticks, that fits, that convinces. I was half convinced myself."

This is an excellent and fascinating piece of scholarship

I like the pace and imagination here. And chapter 4 is a brilliant shory story of its own. I've not read a more evocative contrast between being unto death and being unto love.

It's interesting how much the early 2000s Taliban resembles 2020s MAGA

This fictional 2032 is waaaay too imaginable.

Among other things, this is reminding me how to think and write