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By: wet lenses

wet lenses — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

on man-made law rather than religious doctrine. It’s often missed that secular is a Christian idea, straight out of Augustine, who coined the word ‘saeculum’ to mean the present age where the two cities always interpenetrate until the eschaton.Brian Hamiltonexplains: Augustine secularizes the world and the church alike, divesting them of the absolute or final significance which either has only eschatologically. The Roman Empire is not identical with the earthly city, and the Church, though it can be

By: The Fire and the Rose

The Fire and the Rose — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The failure of the war on drugs

By: The Ochlophobist

The Ochlophobist — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

a review done by Brian Hamilton

By: Faith and Theology

Faith and Theology — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

for boosting blog traffic. (If I win the prize, I’ll donate it to a reader of F&T.) Peter Leithart has a nice quote from Pamuk on “why we fall in love with only a few books in a lifetime.” And Brian isabsolutely rightto defend the importance of theological polemics: “Are not such oppositions entirely necessary, in order to demonstrate the kinds of decision (rather than syncretism) that conversion entails?” Daniel Philpott

By: The Ironic Catholic

The Ironic Catholic — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Augustine