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Dr. Goodsir describing the dissection of a human body wins for the sheer amount of "I give zero fraks" poured into it.

We must say that Christendom is never-ending, insofar as Christ is never-ending. At the same time, I must insist that Christendom must be mourned, insofar as clergy and laity alike apparently spurn a comprehensive Christian culture and community, opting instead for the compromises and blandishments of the world.

Have we really been doing so well that we can treat the Holy Order of the Logos as dispensable? Do we really think we are succeeding without Christ?

As a fish fully immersed in water, so was the Christian immersed in Christendom.

What is a "Post Post-Christian era?". Since 1789, a great deal of ink and blood have been spilled to demonstrate that we are all better off individually and collectively without Christ. Some 230 years later, that assertion is getting harder and harder to maintain. I can say with confidence that the "post-Christian world" just is not working.

Can we not perhaps see that the growth of the assumption of primordial violence in political theory is really a part of the same historical movement as that of the development of the doctrine of the total depravity of man, of simul justus et peccator, and of the denial of transformative grace?

...the monopoly of violence that sovereignty demands is actually organizationally possible only through the technology of the modern State, and the ideological component of sovereignty-- the belief that monopolized violence is "legitimate"-- is constructed and sustained only in response to the conviction of the ubiquity of violence or scarcity...

Scary? Not really. Compelling? Yeah.

From the preface, "In the end, the book has come to propose a narrative structure that emerges from the Christian tradition and that is, I think, capable of making sense of the data of the sources while telling a story rather different than that which is normally told."

Shards and spears of ice reflect the lantern light through the foot long holes in the hull, but in the centre is something much more disturbing---- blackness. Nothing. A hole in the ice. A tunnel.

While the lowest deck would normally be cold but safe there beneath the waterline or winter line of frozen sea ice, the pressure from the ice forced Terror's stern more than a dozen feet higher than it should be.

I've been wanting to read this since AMC made it into a TV show.

She was in the outer darkness, we present with her who was in it! We were not in the outer darkness; had we been, we could not have been WITH her; we should have been timelessly, spacelessly, absolutely apart. The darkness knows neither the light nor itself; only the light knows itself and the darkness also. None but God hates evil and understands it.

If you thought The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was heavy on allegory, you ain't seen nothing yet.