Principalities and Powers

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@CrownMaybe Truly

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@pythonrocksnake I think ebooks are a huge driver of this decline in quality. At CUP's price point, most scholars are incentivized to just use their institutional access to the ebook. This decreases the size of the print run, making it harder to pay for high quality printing, binding, etc.

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@stanfordNYC Can't this also just be seen as "conservatives are happy when candidates they think would make awful politicians disgrace themselves"? They can just be happy that the odds are decreasing that they'll be governed by Platner or Hong.

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@TURBOPOSSUM You're just arriving at that point?

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@rabcyr_alt @shagbark_hick capable of accommodating wildly different cultures, as both Orthodoxy and Catholicism always have.

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@rabcyr_alt @shagbark_hick The only thing to learn here is that Hickman has no idea what he's talking about vis-a-vis Orthodoxy. There are also huge cultural differences between a wealthy suburban Catholic parish in NoVA and a poor, entirely Hispanic parish in the Rio Grand valley. Religious traditions are

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@Tame_E_Coyote @Face_Almighty44 No, but the asymptote of time spent on children is still a very high % of your time.

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@bishoy_gabriel Tell me you don't believe in Chalcedon without telling me you don't believe in Chalcedon.

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@Empty_America Crazy how intellectuals tend to end up thinking that going "back to the fields" is good for other people but not them.

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@TURBOPOSSUM Uh, dawg, I lived through a famine once in the US of A (my closest Golden Corral was closed for 3 days once.)

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@TURBOPOSSUM Idk man, there are some people who clearly think the way is pretty narrow.

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@depauper8 @orthonormalist @eigenrobot Whom does he wish to see "strung up"?

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@Historycourses I get that I'm more sympathetic to the project of intellectual genealogies than my brethren the historians. But let's at least use this as an opportunity to review our Heiko Oberman.

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@Historycourses I mean, I think the presentation here is dumb. But the core of the idea as presented by, say, Servais Pinckaers, while I'm not sure I totally buy it, is somewhat compelling.

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@Zalmoxis7534 @DanielDorotheos @Orthofox312 Yes, the only widely available translation is Frederick Chase's translation for CUA's Fathers of the Church series. This was done in the 50s, before Kotter's critical edition of the text was made.

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@LacanianC @Craig_Truglia @pwhhjr I can't speak to what he says about Dionysius, but his early study of the hesychast controversy is definitely "hard-nosed historical-critical" type work. So he was capable of that sort of thing, even if his most famous work was of a different sort.

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@DeepDishhhLover @stanfordNYC @mtracey It can mean either "with consent" but also "with respect to consent." The latter meaning is the far more natural reading in this context.

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@satisfyjustice Right. I think a 3 sentence quote from a work of that sort of complexity miiiiight not really encapsulate everything we might want to know.