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"There is a method of conducting controversy which is most serviceable to theological exactitude; there is also one which tends to cramp the mind and rob theology of all its grace. Let yours be the better method." -W.B. Pope
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"As to the miraculous gifts and effusions of the Holy Ghost which glorified the first days, we believe that, like the sheet which Peter saw, they served their purpose for a season, and were taken up again into heaven."
--W.B. Pope w/a kind of figural cessationism
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Discussions about what's overrated are ... not as interesting as people think they are going to be.
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In the 1920s, subdividers ran this bizarro ad publicizing the agrarian Valley that looked like someone singed their palm on a waffle iron.
(For the unitiated, Owensmouth became Canoga Park, North LA became Northridge, and First Nat'l Studio became Warner Bros.)
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What's your favorite cognitive behavior mine is having justified true beliefs no lie bro, ten reps sets of three 4 days a week feel the burn hurt so good crushing it
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“That which God abundantly makes the subject of his promises, God’s people should abundantly make the subject of their prayers.”
— Jonathan Edwards
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Archetypal theology, trinitarian iconography, eternal generation, the new Kyle Strobel book, and Oliver O'Donovan on judgment. Plus Augustine trying to manage his household. fredfredfred.com/2026/10/the…
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I am going to say something that very few people want to hear, but I think it's true. The only way to "save the Humanities" is through serious gen ed reform that most universities don't want to undertake.
The hour is very late.
The number of people writing dissertations in the humanities has collapses, now the same thing is happening in the social sciences.
I'd wager that we will see a similar trend in psychology and other fields before long. Cuts in funding, the tight academic job market, and AI are rapidly changing the university and cratering graduate programs.
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all day every day burning through trust and goodwill, when all I really want is decent search
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3 or more "suspected spam" calls daily are making most phones less valuable as real-time social voice tools. Everybody under 60 already dreads voice calls lowkey amirite? Something Ought To Be Done.
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Torrey Honors College recently instituted a series of Classical Theology lectures for undergrads. Weds night I'm doing the one covering intro to theology, doctrine of revelation, & doctrine of scripture. Leading ideas taken from from the Protestant Scholastics & the Cappadocians.
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Eph 3:10 ("to the rulers & authorities in heavenly places the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church") was generally read to mean good angels; in modern times fallen angels, demons.
Spurgeon is a late holdout, w/a colorful, vigorous sermon on angel lessons:
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Read the whole thing here: spurgeongems.org/sermon/chs9…
(By the way, the details of 3:10's reception history are fascinating: Zanchi says angels & teases Ambrose for saying demons, etc.)
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In his 1128 book The Glorification of the Holy Trinity, Rupert of Deutz calls the Trinity a treasure hid in a field, drawing on the parable in Mt 13. He's interested in the fact that it's "hidden" (absconditus) & needs to be discovered), but also that its located in a field.
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The field, says Rupert, is the Old Testament. "And it is rightly called a field, because it is truly a public matter; a thing placed in the open." So the Trinity is hidden there only from those who cannot see. To see its truth is only to discern the features of the holy field.
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That's the opening riff to a fascinating book that develops the idea at length. It deserves to be better known, you might say retrieved. Look into at mereorthodoxy.com/the-faith-….
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