This completes the notebook that was finished at the end of December 2022.
The opposite of freedom of speech is not restriction of speech (which people with freedom of speech often voluntarily do) but punishment of people for speaking.
Talk of harmful speech often confuses speech as objective cause with speech as moving cause.
Judith 13:18 and Judith as type of Mary
All rites functioning in their proper context either remove obstacles or provide goods or complete what needs completion.
perfecting perfecting sacrament: eucharist, ordination
perfecting illuminating sacrament: confirmation, marriage, unction
perfecting purifying sacrament: baptism, reconciliation
illuminating perfecting sacramental: liturgicals, Scripture (liturgically), consecration
illuminating illuminating sacramental: Scripture (devotionally), icons, relics
illuminating purifying sacramental: exorcism
purifying perfecting sacramental: votives?, preaching (liturgical)
purifying illuminating sacramental: sign of the Cross, preaching (devotional)
purifying purifying sacramental: holy water?, preaching (missionary)
To be part of the laity is to be like guardian angels for the good things of the world, protecting them, enriching them, and bringing them to God.
What the priest does in concentrated and proper way in Mass, the laity does in loose and symbolic way in the world; the real presence of Christ in the Mass is extended representatively by the laity into the world.
Baruch 3:12 -- the fountain of wisdom = Father (Athanasius)
Divine incorporeality directly and easily implies immutability and simplicity in some sense.
promise as a gift of form or end
Lancelot Andrewes, drawing on St. Isidore, reads Dt 21:11-13 alleogrically as describing the use of customs and ceremonies of gentiles by Christians (A Discourse of Ceremonies Retained and Used in Christian Churches).
You cannot be benign to something that has no definite nature.
the sources of the rabbinical list of the seven things created before the world:
(1) Torah -- Pr 8:22
(2) Repentance -- Ps 90:2-3
(3) Garden of Eden -- Gn 2:8
(4) Gehenna -- Is 30:33
(5) Throne of Glory -- Ps 93:2
(6) Temple -- Jer 17:12
(7) Name of Messiah -- Ps 72:17
It's often the case that the same thing that makes something bureaucratically legible, makes it easy to counterfeit or cheat. If a bureaucracy can process it, a method can game it.
1 Kings 8:1-6 as a type of the Dormition (Damascene)
The liturgy opposes the devil by grace, the world by sign,a nd the flesh by discipline.
No -ism can substitute for the Kingdom of God.
"The people turn to benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness." Mencius 4A.9
Knowledge, and especially skill or know-how, expands the possibilities opened to us and to our decisions.
natural law : legislative :: natural right : judicial :: human authenticity :: executive
An event is a set of active and passive powers acting and being acted on in such a way as to be related to each other.
Where there is a right, there is a teleology.
Where people respect property rights, extending the respect for such rights to respect for public property is easy, and requires only mild enforcement.
Civil societies are structured and driven by teh nature of the families that constitute them.
"The conviction of a truth may be irresistible, and yet not immediate." Reid
As 'gender' tends to be used, most religious identities are also gender identities.
music as a mold, its objective causality as being analogous to that of place, which is filled by other thoughts and feelings, a vessel into which one flows
Talking loudly about one's morality often obscures one's morality even to oneself.
the natural, moral, jural, and sacral concomitance of the Body and the Blood
sacral concomitance: each is a sacred sign of each
"The vulgar have undoubted right to give names to things which they are conversant about; and philosophers seem justly chargeable with an abuse of language, when they change the meaning of a common word, without giving warning." Reid
There are times when need does what trust would otherwise do, where lack of trust makes little difference because need fills the gap. Indeed, trust has sometimes been seeded by need in this way.
the gregarious function of college campuses
Effective opposition to authoritarianism requires dogmatic certainty.
Subective rights are often ways of thinking about the negative (do no evil) part of the rithg (as object of justice).
The development of the New Testament was inevitable in that the Old Covenant was seen as something read (Ex 24:7; 2 Kg 23:2; 2 Cor 3:14) and the apostles saw themselves as ministers of a New Covenant (2 Cor 3:6).
"If man had not sinned, the Son of Man would not have come. " Augustine, Sermon 174.2
"What was the cause of the Incarnation, if not the redemption of teh flesh that had sinned?" Ambrose, De Inc. c. 6
"Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." 1 Tim 1:15
elements of predestination
(1) divine self-love
(2) appropriation to Father and Word (the Father's love for the Son)
(3) appropriatino of creature to Word (intention of grace)
"An effect is formally likened more to a lesser, proximate cause than to a more perfect, remote one." Scotus, Ord. 1d3p3q3
Mary's role in the sacraments is related to the role of angels in the sacraments (she participates as Queen of Angels).
the Virgin's liturgical co-prayer
the Virgin's sacramental patronage
The primacy of charity arises from the primacy of divine action, not from any primacy of the will.
Human inquiry is not an atomistic enterprise. Inquiries always overlap social practices, including other inquiries.
We are co-stewards of inquiry.
Part of the honest pursuit of truth is recognizing the need for companions in it.
types that are also precedents (e.g., ceremonial laws for the sacraments)
types that are prophetically framed (e.g., 'Immanuel')
types that provide pre- and co-reflection (e.g., Jonah)
The antitype for the type is not the doctrine but the res.
Scriptural typology is heuristic and clarificatory, despite not being in itself probative.
Nothing is blameworthy or praiseworthy in skill except what can be otherwise.
Probabilities for 'X does not exist' often don't seem to work like probabilities for 'X exists' because we often take the former to be about a the result of a set of all searches and the latter about the result of a particular search.
search impossibility: returns false in all possible relevant searches of adequate integrity
search necessity: returns true in all possible relevant searches of adequate integrity
Justifying reasons for permissions often work very differently from justifying reasons for omissions or commissions.
(1) Differences of possible worlds presuppose a cause.
(2) Not all differences of possible worlds can be explained by contingent causes (i.e., causes associated with only some possible worlds).
(3) Therefore the possible worlds manifold presupposes at aleast one necessary cause.
(4) The necessity of this cause is either derivative or original.
(5) If there are derivative necessary causes, tehre must be at least one original necessary cause.
(6) Therefore there is some original necessary cause. This all call divine.
Arguments involving the structure, 'defect indicates nonexistence of cause of nondefect' all require that we know the scope of the capability of the cause, in very specific ways related to the defect. Even in ordinary cases this can be difficult to assess.
It is a common failing of the modern age to conflate life and experience.
"The Preeminent-Beyond-All is not only beyond every affirmation, but, beyond every negation, he has also exceeded ever preeminence whatsoever which has come into being in the mind." Palamas (Triads 2.3.9)
sameness : substance :: equality : quantity :: similarity : quality
substantial sameness
A. per se
--- (1) formal (by ratio/nature/notion)
--- (2) material
--- --- (a) in physical order (matter)
--- --- (b) in logical order (genus)
B. per accidens
--- (1) predicated of same subject
--- (2) interchangeable with subject
--- (3) interchangeable with predicate
"By grace man is made a lover of God." Aquinas (SCG 3.151)
We can refer to one reality under many different concepts.
The lover participates the beloved objectively, not subjectively.
It is a common experience in trust to find that the trust is in some way a gift of the one trusted, that the trusted is in some way the source of the trust.
regulative, constitutive, and facilitative means
Marriage, circumcision, and priesthood are patriarchal sacraments (moral) taken up by the Mosaic law (jural); the Mosaic elevations of these are then transfigured by Christ (sacral), with circumcision transformed into baptism as sign of 'circumcision of heart'. Mosaic circumcision is the one that was participated in by Christ Himself, to whom we are united in baptism through His Baptism.
In every covenant there is a promise and confirmation.
"There are three things in which the junzi stands in awe: the ordinances of Heaven, great men, and teh words of sages. The petty man does not know the ordinances of Heaven, is disrespectful of great men, and makes sport of the words of sages." Analects 16.8
What the doctrine of recollection gets right about knowledge is that we start in medias res and in some sense work backward to that which our being here-and-so requires.
Just laws have the mark of being, in at least a general way, friendly to humanity.
People like confessing and repenting other people's sins because it means less time for examining their own.
Science, like everything human, accumulates folkloric accretions.
On infant baptism and vicarious intention, note healings by Christ where one person is healed on another person's faith.
To pray with faith is to pray in solidarity with the faith of others.
'Doxa in Hypsistious Theou' as a Trinitarian formula
The distinction between reasoning and experience is not a sharp one, because we experience reasoning and reason in experiencing.
The Parable of the Sower does not only apply to the first evangelical proclamation, but to every sowing in every generation.
faith, hope, and love as synodal dispositions
The science of the modern age has often been a byproduct of its kookery, woo, and 'pseudoscience'. This is clear whenever one looks extensively at the biographies of scientists.
We tend to study stable things dynamically and changing things statically.
the problem of eisegesis in museum curation
textual & higher criticism // museum curation
Inference to best explanation is ultimately inference to best context; it is reasoning about to contextualize an explanandum.
Human sexual activity is always partly symbolic.
In everything there is something unmeasurable.
skills as alethic and deontic powers
If Box is the error-free, there are as many Boxes as there are general forms of error.
Many of the Lord's hard sayings are hard for a particular kind of genuine decency -- if you don't find them hard, this can be as much a red flag as finding them impossible; it is a sign that you are below them rather than above them.
A large portion of the Pauline Epistles is devoted to the problem of integrating very diverse populations and demographics into one church community.
Tristram : disregard for penance :: Lancelot : disregard for marriage :: Knights in Grail Quest : loss of eucharist
Serras : eucharist :: Avalon : unction
Sword in the Stone : Baptism :: Excalibur : Confirmation :: Grail Sword : Order
Creation is a kind of love.
Even our meals are better when seasoned with story and symbol.
We first understand history by taking it as a sort of allegory.
Any full development of argument requires test runs (eristic), resource development (logistic), defense (apologetic), and offense (polemic). These arise out of the communicative nature of human reasoning.
Better that people argue polemically and heatedly than that they not reason together at all.
typical rom-com structure: meet-cute, entanglement, hook, surrender
Universalist arguments tend to fail in at least one of three ways:
(1) violation of remotion
(2) false account of heaven
(3) handwaving guarantee of contrition
consensus gentium arguments as based on the recognition of inquiry as cooperative
We make our obligations more practicable in and accessible for our situation by rites and ceremonies.
It is part of natural right that humanitarian traditions be sustained by the people.
Thigns are good relative to the virtues with which they can be integrated. When considered simply, we are usually talking about prudence-goods.
Virtue signaling seems to arise from treating moral problems as broadcast-rhetoric problems.
