When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them. (Sense and Sensibility, chap 36).

Still Phillips, still Houdini’s Box: To learn to discriminate, to learn to talk and think and choose, is to learn to exclude (attention is supremely selective). “Attention is supremely selective.” That to which we attend is either what has power over us and/or what we regard as most attractive (where “attractive”, of course, can include a…

Doug Wilson’s fine, fine addresses at the recent Family Conference (mp3s available here) explored something of what it means for husbands to love their wives and for wives to respect their husbands. Amongst other things, Doug noted that when boys do not receive the respect which nurtures them then they move to boasting and when girls do…

“… I always read to find something that will strike me … for the quotations. I read books as if they were dictionaries of quotations, it’s like the lottery …” “One of my friends who’s got children says what he can’t stand is the interruption … but it may be the point … interruption is…

In itself and as such, then, humility is not alien to the nature of the true God, but supremely proper to Him in His mode of being as the Son. … It must be considered what is implied by the assumptio carnis. It is not merely that God willed not to be alone, but to co-exist as…

When we say Jesus Christ, this is not a possibility which is somewhere ahead of us, but an actuality which is already behind us. With this name in our hearts and on our lips, we are not laboriously toiling uphill, but merrily coming down. (Church Dogmatics, §64.2)

You won’t find an adequate analogy for that which is the ground of all analogies, namely, the hypostatic union. You could say, of course, that the ground of all analogies is the eternal relationship of the Father and the Son and the fact that the Son is the Image of the Father. You could say…

You do or you don’t really know what you want. Or both. Two more paragraphs from Adam Phillips’ Houdini’s Box: The convinced are in flight from the experimental nature of wanting, from the fact that you can only find out what you want by trying to get it, and in the process you may find something…

Christ is truly human and the hypostatic union does not produce ontological change in the human nature which the Word assumes to Himself. The sinner is a marred and inconsistent human being but still a human being and regeneration does not make him/her some other species than human. There is an historical particularity and a…

When we say Jesus Christ, this is not a possibility which is somewhere ahead of us, but an actuality which is already behind us. With this name in our hearts and on our lips, we are not laboriously toiling uphill, but merrily coming down. (Church Dogmatics, §64.2)