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P. 39: For all the things that the Apostles have handed down, either by word of mouth or in writing, are in harmony with one another from both sides, since they were pronounced by one and the same Spirit of truth, who never contradicts himself and who wanted that no contradiction or any kind of contrariety we found in the teaching of the apostles (2 Cor. 1:19).

P. 80: I left all these things - God only knows what a love I have for them - as cooly and calmly as any animated cucumber; but when I come upon them again I shall have lost all power of self-restraint, and shall as certainly make a fool of myself as ever Grimaldi did in his way, or George the Third in his.

P. 577: Christianity was resented, because, in its own still and almost secret way, it had declared war. It had risen out of the Ground to wreck the heaven and earth of heathenism. It did not try to destroy all that creation of gold and marble [found in ancient Rome]; but it contemplated life without it. - G. K. Chesterton.

Perhaps the best chapter so far has been Chesterton's.

P. 530: Truth as reality makes up the enviroment of fellowship; truth as propositional correspondence to reality defines the criteria of true fellowship; while truth as goodness of character is the fellowship itself. - Edward John Cornell

P. 17: the divine law can depend on no one except God himself, who is dependent on no creature. And just as the first principles and immovable norms do not depend on the authority of those who use them, but only on the one who has established them ... so too holy scripture ... the unmoved rule of faith and mortal conduct, can depend on nothing but God who has granted it, and on its own light, which he has put into it

P. 7: [Old and New Testaments] agree as far as the substance is concerned. And the same theology is advanced in both Testaments; God's single will to redeem the human race and the one basic promise that salvation must be obtained through Christ.

xix: Zechariah, when he exhorts us to "love truth and peace," gives pride of place to the Truth ... and he rightly grants the next place to Peace, as she is her attendant. For by its very nature the Truth is always fair and just, acceptable to God ... But Peace, if she should deviate from the pathway of Truth, would become unfair, offensive to God, and destructive to everyone who walks in her ways.

Section on Kierkegaard was stimulating and helpful. Made me want to read more of him!

P. 87: Writing to Fuller, the Serampore missionaries ... had come to the conviction "no one has a right to debar a true Christian from the Lord's table ... without being guilty of a breach of the law of love."

Fuller was deeply disturbed ... and exerted all his powers to ... convince them to embrace closed Communion, which they eventually did in 1811.

P. 113: This is not the path for everyone, but it is the necessary path for Mark, just as it was for Dante's pilgrim. Beatrice says about the pilgrim, "He sank so low that the only means for his salvation was showing him the damned in hell" (Purg. 30.136-138). Ironically, the Objective Room, described as coffin-shaped, is "the intended tomb for Mark as a moral human being," but it "becomes the site of his rebirth."

P. 302: Tolkien recognizes the intersection of two different planes of consideration: the real, permanent world of morality on the one hand, and the changing, subjective game of honor on the other. In other words, we can suffer confusion between an aesthetic distaste and hatred of sin.

P. 247: The Christian joy that provokes us to give glory to God is something like the emotion one might feel if a favorite fairy story had been found to be true... The joy of eucatastrophe is the realization that the most wonderful reversals of fiction are actually echoes of the way things work in the real word. This is why our nature funds such a resonance with the sudden joyous turn -- because we are made for it.

Don't know what is happening with the little wizard dude at the bottom of the story. But I am here for it regardless of the rest of the story's result.

Gonna enjoy this corndog.

P. 99: Although he later considered Till We Have Faces his best novel, he earlier states that "Perelandra is much the best book I have written." "Best," however, is not the same as "favorite," and one month before his death, he writes to a correspondent, "Perelandra is my favorite too."

P. 42: Wells's duo has experiences that confirm their negative preconceptions about life beyond our planet ... is a black void and that the universe is filled with death and hostile aliens. Lewis's Weston and Devine have the same set of assumptions, but their assumptions block a true perception of reality and pervert what they see. Lewis ... demonstrates the error of their negative preconceptions through Ransom.

P. 151: Since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.