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Fun game: which is a postmodern Greek theologian, which is a groundbreaking jazz composer?

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I’m in! Don’t know about Flood’s radicalism, but ready to learn!

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I’m thinking he chose Leo in homage to Leo I, and things are about to get crunk with dyothelitism

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List of popes by conference:

0 - AAC
0 - A10
0 - Atlantic Coast
0 - Atlantic Sun
0 - Big 12
1 - Big East
0 - Big Sky
0 - Big South
0 - Big 10
0 - Big West
0 - CAA
0 - CUSA
0 - Horizon
0 - Ivy
0 - MAAC
0 - MAC
0 - Mountain West
0 - NEC
0 - Ohio Valley
0 - Patriot League
0 - SEC
0 - SWAC
0 - Sun Belt

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It’s such an honor to read a review that engages so thoughtfully with _Leaving Emmaus._

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Medieval Catholics added purgatory to heaven and hell as part of the eschatological landscape. “Eastern theology, fortunately, never achieved such topographic completeness.” Ha!

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When I reviewed Bulgakov’s Bride of the Lamb 21 years ago, i recall thinking that the last 200 pages were filled with gems buried in endless redundancies. Now that I’ve reread them: gems buried in endless redundancies

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Pauli Murray Center denounces removal of the priest’s biography from National Park Service website [Episcopal News Service] The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice in Durham, North Carolina, has denounced the removal of a biography of Murray from the National Park Service website …

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Fortunately state governments don’t, so far as I know, get to erase heavenly biographies. I imagine Ms Murray is laughing at the petty mortals in DC these days

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“As above, so below” could be the tagline of von Balthasar’s entire theological project. Except for the snaggle he gets into about how the Trinity inverts itself in the missions.

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In the studio talking aphophasis and kataphasis with Fr. Maximos Constas

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Catholic social teaching doing what is was made to do

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You got this

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We’re overdue for another song about jumping. Kris Kross, House of Pain, the Pointer Sisters, and Van Halen have carried the torch honorably for many years, but I think we’re ready for a new jumping song.

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@drasramirez.bsky.social

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"The distance between the Persons... is the foundation of contemplation."

It may turn out that anything helpful I ever say about the Trinity is a footnote to von Balthasar. I think I'm cool with that.

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The preponderance of uninterpreted von Speyr quotations in von Balthasar’s work is one of the great oddities of 20th theology. In Theo-Drama V it comprises nearly 1/2 of the book

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“It is just not right to look at other people’s cards” (404).
It took von Balthasar 15 volumes to get to that core ontological truth.

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As promised: here’s what Tillich thought about Schelling’s #eschatology

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Roving office during sabbatical

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No, but it’s now on my list. I love the great westerns —Unforgiven… 3:10 to Yuma… I miss more than I see though

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Good to know. Modern Western tears are good tears

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If this didn't exist, we would need to invent it

new.sewanee.edu/summa/

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30s book review
#eschatology #phenomenology
#ecology

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I’m considering posting 1 minute reviews of my readings in #eschatology. Would that be interesting to the #theology Blue-niverse?

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30 second review of Ratzinger’s #eschatology

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30 second review of Ratzinger’s #eschatology

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I’m considering posting 1 minute reviews of my readings in #eschatology. Would that be interesting to the #theology Blue-niverse?

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