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Zanchi on Festivals (2)


 30 Jan 2020
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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In today's post, Zanchi continues his response to the objection that Christians should not have festivals through an analysis of the Fourth Commandment. Zanchi here makes the important distinction between...

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Zanchi on Festivals (1)


 29 Jan 2020
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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In clearing out some old papers, I came across something I had meant to do here, but didn’t get around to it; so I’m doing it now. That “something” is a series on an interesting bit of Girolamo...

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Male-Only Ordination is Natural: Why the Church is a Model of Reality


 16 Jan 2019
 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
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One of the dangers inherent in "complementarianism" is the perception that ordination to ecclesiastical office is a matter of semi-arbitrary positive law and private zones of jurisdiction, that male leadership...

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“Prayer, Work, Laughter, We Need Them All”: Notes in Service of Sanctified Celebration


 25 Jul 2018
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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"Natura abhorret a vacuo" Nature abhors a vacuum, and so every people constituted as a political body is going to have a schedule of sacred observances, of holy days--days marked out as special in some...

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What is Effeminacy?


 15 Jul 2018
 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
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So let's talk about effeminacy. This came up as final point of criticism in my Mere Orthodoxy critique of the gay Christianity of Revoice and Spiritual Friendship. Now, I knew that "going there" would...

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Is Concupiscence Sin?– Gay Christianity, Desire, and Orientation


 28 Jun 2018
 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
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Picking up from my previous post on the problem of gay-but-chaste Christianity, I want to talk about concupiscence. Jack Bates criticizes me for introducing concupiscence into the discussion in an over-generalized...

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More Thoughts on Spiritual Friendship/Gay Christianity– Unpacking Some Basic Confusion


 25 Jun 2018
 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
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My essay over at Mere Orthodoxy on the Spiritual Friendship conversation has generated a fair amount of discussion these past few weeks. Much of it has been very good. Some of it was of the predictable...

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Natural Knowledge Still Requires Teaching


 03 Jan 2018
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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If one holds to some version of natural law or a natural knowledge of the virtuous and the vicious, it might seem to imply that nothing else is required for virtuous action. I mean, we all know what "the...

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Burn, Baby, Burn?


 31 Oct 2017
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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In a truly bizarre thread on Twitter yesterday--the eve of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation--started by our own Steven Wedgeworth, a number of traditionalist Roman Catholics speculated as to whether...

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Religion a Part of Justice


 12 Oct 2017
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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We haven't had a Hemmingsen post in a while, and I know how it has made you pine. Fret not; I'm here for you. In their discussion of the virtues, the magisterial Reformers followed the classical tradition...

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