While states are sometimes slow to act, they also often overreact to problems when they do; thus the need for checks and balances.
the locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary aspects of icons
democracy & the problem of cheap verbal extremism
recursive almsgiving -- almonry at multiple levels (private, official, bureaucratic, etc.)
Societies are structured by order and jurisdiction.
clerical assistance to lay service (e.g., chaplain) and lay assistance to clerical service (e.g., lay ministers)
Beauty is symbol for beauty.
Those who genuinely respect people will respect the material infrastructure used to support and refresh them.
co-situation as an important part of our experience as perceivers
proverb as expression of royal wisdom
Rosh Hashanah and God as King
Prayer is meant to be poured.
shoshanah (Song 2:1-2, 2:16, 4:5, 5:13, 6:2, 7:3)
-- usually thought to be etymologically from Egyptian zshn/zeshen = lotus
-- Greek (sousson) and Arabic (sawsan) derivatives mean lily
-- LXX uses krinon, another word for lily; Vulgate uses lilium
-- Rashi takes shosanah to be synonym for chavatzelet (= crocus) in 2:1
the rose as eros hidden
the veil as the silence of the face
Eros is hermeneutic by nature.
Whether something is underfunded always depends on what is being done with the money.
Innocence is often of greater value in questioning and testing assumptions than is intelligence.
the magisterial and colloquial aspects of Church teaching
subject-object distinction as arising from the capacity of form to emulate form
Aristotle's virtue of magnanimity makes for strong leaders with no interest in being tyrants.
Changing one's beliefs is a matter of shifting one's dispositions with respect to different objective and motive causes. Criticism of doxastic voluntarism often in reality criticizes the view that we can believe without respect to available motive causes or objective causes, or else falsely assumes that we always have only one undifferentiated motive or objective cause.
the character of reason as shining through passion
Every possible world in possible world semantics can be represented as an infinite string of 0's and 1's (assuming classical truth valuation, of course).
If one sets aside the requirements of the Church for a moment, focusing only on what is permissible for Christian life, God has shown in revelation that He accepts highly formal and highly informal ways of rendering devotion to God, and that He accepts gold-encrusted sanctuary and patron-backed ministry and poor bands devoted to prophetic and evangelistic mission. When it comes to living a life for God, God has shown Himself to be far less of a snob, far less picky, than many Christians.
It is clear from how moral education works that without punishment people would be horrible; people who think they are moral without punishment are always assuming that they and others have already been fully morally trained. The only real room for doubt is what role punishment should play, not whether it has one. Show me someone claiming they never had to be penalized in order to learn how to live a moral life, and I will show you an obvious hypocrite and liar.
The tendency to survival is the most stripped-down and minimal imitation of divine love.
Ministry gets its character from the mission of which it is part.
"The real altar is heaven, which is the goal of all our prayers and sacrifices." Irenaeus (Adv. Haer. 4.18.8)
To do something in memory of something is not the same as merely remembering it, nor even the same as remembering it while doing something like it.
In art, suspension of disbelief must be earned.
The superstitions of yesteryear are often repeated in this age, but whereas the fearful powers were once usually understood on the model of persons, now they are understood more often on the model of unconscious forces.
The experience of being a Christian in the world is much like the experience of always being in the process of being betrayed. Nothing in the world can be wholly relied upon; you are always already sold out by parts of the world; it is already at least taking offers.
The Eucharist
(1) remits penalty for sin immediately as an act of divine mercy uniting us with Christ's passsion;
(2) remits venial sin mediately through graces of repentance;
(3) remits mortal sin mediately through graces of repentance.
spiritual communion in Mass // purgatory
While watching Mass on television or listening to it on radio is not eucharistic participation, it does contribute to the perpetual prayer of the Church.
Assessment of teaching is usually like the shadow-game in the cave.
The nonfixity of our will arises from our being unmoored, a process that reaches its final result in death.
direct object and indirect object as 'verb directions'
assertion as the identification of a teleology for an agent or patient, with the end being either the verb in itself or that to which the verb is directed in a certain way
Much of the work of being a student is developing what might be called a domain-specific aptness for further study. To be a good student is to learn to be more of a student in an area.
(1) signs
(2) signs that are instrumental causes
(3) instrumental signs of the sacred
(4) natural sacraments (sacraments improperly speaking)
(5) sacraments of covenantal grace
(6) minor sacraments
(7) major sacraments (the Seven)
(8) the sacramental economy (Church as general sacrament)
(9) Christ as exemplar sacrament
All sacred icons depict divine actions, whether in the form of Scriptural or providential events or in the form of saints as blessing or prayer, or both.
If you can get it by spending money, it is not an 'identity'.
didactic poems as fossilized philosophy
Analytic philosophers have often used existential import to smuggle in assumptions about modality.
points as parts-of-boundaries with no proper parts
hypomune (endurance) as another name for hope (Titus 2:2)
Titus 2:4 -- the elder women are to behave such as to sophronizosin (temperance-ize) the young woman so as to be husband-loving, child-loving, temperate (sophronas), pure, home-keeping, good (agathas), subordinate to husbands, that the Logos of God should not be maligned.
-- perhaps worth nothing that young women are assumed not to tend toward these things without training
Titus 2:6 -- the young men are likewise exhorted to be temperate (sophroneon)
Titus 2:12 -- sophronos kai diaios kai eusebos
prosdechomenoi ten makarion elpida: expecting the blessed hoped-for
note that Titus 2:13 calls back to 2:11 -- having epiphany, we await epiphany; cf. 3.4
2:14 -- laon periousion, a people out of the ordinary
2:15 -- the bishop should say (lalei, cf. 2:1) and invoke (parakalei, lit. call near, cf. 1:9) and argue for (elenche, cf. 1:9) these things of temperance
3:8 -- Pistos ho Logos
1:5 The bishop straightens/arranges things further (epidiorthose) what the apostle has done and designates (katasteses, lit. puts down) elders (presbyterous) in every city.
1:7 -- the bishop as God's steward (oikonomon, estate manager)
1:8 -- the bishops should be philoxenon, philagathon, sophrona, dikaion, hosion, enkrate
The letter to Titus more than once indicates that an essential part of the bishop's function is to argue (elenchein).
The list at Titus 2:4-5 seems to be neither an arbitrary list nor a checklist but a sample list of ways the temperance-ized person may be, according to her situation.
Romans 11:11-13 -- Even the lapse (paraptoma) and loss (hettema) of the Children of Israel is salvation to the nations and wealth to the universe and reconciliation of the universe; their completion must therefore be unimaginably great, life out of death.
Overlap implies compossibility.
Overlap is compossibility such that something can be a part. (This would mean that Overlap operator only impleis what is usually taken to be its defintiion, i.e., the usual definition assumes that if z is part of x and z is part of y, this implies that x and y themselves are compossible; it breaks down if we assume mutually inconsistent things can share a part.)
X and y being compossible and each being part of some z implies that it is possible that x and y overlap.
