Local Creeds

Many modern readers assume that the Nicene creed was intended at its promulgation to stand as a binding and universal formula of Christian faith with a carefully chosen terminology defining the fundamental Christian account of the relationship between Father and Son. The idea that the creed would serve as a universal and precise marker [...]

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Constitutionalism Works For Minorities Too

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Life-Sustaining Speech

Vital speech has as its raison d’etre the conquest, the perpetual conquest, of these four trends. (anarchy, decadence, revolution, war).

To the four diseases, four different styles of speech bring relief. Men reason, men pass laws, men tell stories, men sing. The external world is reasoned out, the future is ruled, the past it [...]

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Decadence and Liberalism

Decadence not only means that people do not have children, it also means that they do not prove to have the stamina of converting the next generation to their own aims and ends. Decadence is the disease of liberalism today. We must not think of it as a biological failure, merely; it is [...]

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Speaking of Hegel

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy writes:
If this is to some extent reminiscent of Hegel, it is because Hegel in turn developed his philosophy out of a study of Christian history. As an idealist, however, Hegel completely reversed the Christian meaning of concreteness; God is not found inside our minds or ideas; He speaks to us through the [...]

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Ron Paul at the Value Voters Debate

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Sex and War

Genesis 3:15 sets up the great holy war in terms of battling seeds.
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Seed of Serpent                                         Seed of Woman
 
Cain [...]

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Genesis 2 and Genesis 4

Day 1- Man / Cain

     Day 2- Garden (firmament) / Abel

         Day 3- Tree of Life and of Knowledge / Flocks and Fruit

             Day 4-Serve and Guard (priest work) / [...]

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A High Priestly Dialectic

I sat outside reading Breakfast of Champions on the RTS picnic table.
Three gunshots sounded close by.
They were deeper and closer together
than usual.
So far the book is highly inappropriate.
I keep reading it though
because I’ve always fancied myself inappropriate,
though I’m not.
Well, at least not like this.
 
The author of the book is known for writing science fiction stories [...]

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The Invisible Made Visible

The main ingredient of the Church is the Holy Spirit.  This is taught by the Bible and the third article of the Nicaean Creed.  One can see this typified in the original creation account when Adam as God’s priest has spirit breathed into him, and when in the garden, God’s temple, the Voice of the [...]

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