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Smashing the Kingdom of Jove

Charles Norris Cochrane’s summary of Augustine’s critique: In misapprehending God’s kingdom, man misappropriates power

"[T]he error of Classicism may be summarily described as a failure to identify the true source of power and, therewith, its true character and conditions."

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Commentary & Exposition

- Colossians
- Colossians 1:1-29

The Time & Space Between Faith & Love

Acknowledging the rule & power of God in the church by its expressions of love

This is how redemption mimics the original creation: What begins in the act of God as an instance of creation—a man’s new birth, much as a germinated seed—also blooms and then blossoms again among the other flowers in a field of perennials.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Colossians
- Colossians 1:1-29

Awareness & our Earliest and Natural Obligations of Love

The obligations in family predict their display in the church

Awareness, then, eventually and increasingly admits to the world as it is, that we might act within it as we are required. From its vantage point is a near horizon, from which rises the light of our obligations and the evening of their refusals.

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Moral Awareness: Caught up in the Middle of Things

Moral obligations are discovered in moral experience

"It would be nice to test the ground of morality before we step on it. But to all such proposals there is one inevitable reply: they come too late."

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

The Stump Speech Becomes Secularism’s Sermon

Flattery, politics, & the search for power

And yet, there is cause to think that this unbelief has become the very ground of a new positive consensus. It entails the unavoidably moral and religious inclinations that have always belonged to man, but attaches to them the kind of political and sociological expressions that Bottum describes in his book.

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