Christophe Leclerc
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Christophe Leclerc
New Testament scholar John Dominic Crossan: “Implicit in the title ‘woman’ is that her full destiny is to be the ‘woman’ of Genesis 3:15.”27
Brant James Pitre • Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah
Most importantly, the council rejected Luther’s teachings on justification, asserting the reality of human freedom in the work of redemption, the indispensability of good works and the need for the co-operation of the will set free by grace. Moreover, it did this with so thorough and plenteous an exposition from scripture that no Protestant theolog
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different f
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Why Read? Literature as Cultural Resistance to the Decadent West ~ The Imaginative Conservative
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One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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