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I have been invited to deliver a new paper at the third council of Nicaea in Rome, 'From God to God: The Trinitarian Ontology of Gregory of Nyssa'. #Rome2025 #TrinitarianOntology #GregoryNyssa @IOTA33AD @TIAngelicum

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"The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." - Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC

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A French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France, 1945. (Photo by Branson Decou).

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Panagia Sumela is a functioning Orthodox monastery of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, built at the end of the 4th - beginning of the 5th century AD on the chalk rock of Trabzon.

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Napoleon gave his one-time fiancée Désirée Clary a reading list to encourage her to be less boring. Later, she married Jean Bernadotte, became the Queen of Sweden, & joined the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon.

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Underground city of Derinkuyu once housed 20 000 People, encompassing 18 levels of tunnels.

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Top of The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt

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Elk saddled up and being ridden through Missoula Montana, 1910.

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"A friend wondered why we were not building cathedrals now like the famous goths, and I said to him: 'the men of those times had convictions; we, the modern, have nothing but opinions, and to raise a gothic cathedral takes more than an opinion'." - Christian Johann Heinrich Heine

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Flower pedals from the oculus of the Roman Pantheon on the Feast of Pentecost

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It's okay to not understand Hegel.

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The town of Palmanova, Italy, built as a star fort by the Venetian Republic in 1593.

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"Silence is God's first language." — St John of the Cross

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Swiss psychologist and genetic epistemologist Jean Piaget sitting in his home office, 1979.

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Plans to construct a Baroque church in the Roman Colosseum, c. AD 1675.

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A brief history of philosophy on social media

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"The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." - Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC

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Fall of the Rebel Angels, carved out of a single piece of marble in 1740 by Italian sculptor Agostino Fasolato, it depicts 60 fallen angels.

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I passed my PhD viva. Te Deum Laudamus. Deo Gratias!

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The lesson of this story is: be nice to your ex-gf, if you don't want a Swedish army to surround you when you are fighting for your life in the heart of Germany.

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'Greatest academic footnote of all time' prize goes to the Orthodox theologian Nicholas Berdyaev

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"Why the internet dating hype is fallacious. It works on the assumption that you are going to review all the possibilities on offer and take the best, in order to enjoy safe love. But life’s not like that!... Love begins when something impossible is overcome." - Alain Badiou

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Derrida against his critics

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A manuscript page of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov'

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Fr. Georges Lemaître explaining his newly-proposed "Big Bang Theory" to Pope Pius XII (1951). Albert Einstein was in the audience.

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"What inclines even me to believe in Christ's Resurrection? It is as though I play with the thought. -- If he did not rise from the dead, then he decomposed in the grave like any other man. He is dead and decomposed. In that case he is a teacher like any other and can no longer…

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I have submitted my doctoral dissertation

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The Codex Amiatinus, the oldest surviving complete Bible in Latin. It's one of three copies of the Vulgata produced by Benedictine monks in Northumbria around the year 700. It was sent to Rome in 716 as a gift for Pope St. Gregory II and is today in Florence.

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The Hawaiian archipelago would be the world's tallest mountain range when measured from the base to the summit.

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@AurelianofRome No, Napoleon was above average height. In 1815 he was described by an English captain as 'a remarkably strong, well-built man, about five feet seven inches high'. The story that he was short and angry is simply a myth that has been spread by British anti-Bonapartist propaganda.

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Sagrada Família in Barcelona completed with drone lighting.

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The End of Art

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This is what theology looks like

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A trigger warning for Kant's Critiques of Reason

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The title page of the oldest manuscript of Plato's Republic. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Gr. 1807.

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The Arch of Ctesiphon, then and now

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A daily reminder that Derrida named his cat Logos

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"As Peter Geach puts it, for [Thomas] Aquinas the claim that God made the world 'is more like 'the minstrel made music' than 'the blacksmith made a shoe''; and that is to say, creation is an ongoing activity rather than a once-and-for-all event. While the shoe might continue to…

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"[Origen] towers over Christian theological history. After Paul, there is no single Christian figure to whom the whole tradition is more indebted. It was Origen who taught the church how to read scripture as a living mirror of Christ, who evolved the principles of later…

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@ianjonbutler The wine. The baguette. The city.

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After nearly five years since I had received a scholarship, I have now been unanimously approved by @CamDivinity to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Theology and Religious Studies from @Peterhouse_Cam @Cambridge_Uni .

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When I was young, I used to write commentaries on Plato's Parmenides

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I visited the @LondonOrat for the Latin mass today

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The lives of the saints are themselves interpretations of the gospel. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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The elements of philosophy

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Deer in the forest

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Coming soon. #DominicansVsJesuits

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The restored Bells of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. #Apocatastasis

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Andrei Rublev (1966), Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

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"I myself never understood contemporary analytic philosophy until I had spent ten years studying Hegel." - Stanley Rosen, The Limits of Analysis, Yale University press, 1980, p.233

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Please only buy your children Terry Pinkard's new Cambridge University Press translation of G.W.F. Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit.

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Had breakfast with Rowan Williams this morning

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'If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.' - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 6.4311

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Originary Marlboro

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Simone Weil having coffee (1941)

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Faroe Islands, Denmark

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There are two schools of French philosophy: turtlenecks & bare-chests.

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Neoplatonist Symposium Dinner Party on Plato's Seventh Letter

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A mural of Saint Jerome in San Diego

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“Plato, the greatest ṣūfī amongst the ancients…” - Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406), Shifā’ al-Sā’il li-Tahdhīb al-Masā’il 2:2

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The Magi by J.C. Leyendecker, magazine illustration from 1900.

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I am delighted and honoured to announce that I have now accepted a new job as University Librarian and Assistant Professor of Theology at @uaustinorg .

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"Hegel sweeps away any notion that faith and reason are at odds, and has no time for a Wolffian concordat between proximate but separate spheres for theology and philosophy; and he makes human epistemological self-confidence inseparable from confidence in God: only in relation to…

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Swiss philosopher Jean Piaget in his office.

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A friend wondered why we were not building cathedrals now like the famous goths, and I said to him: 'the men of those times had convictions; we, the modern, have nothing but opinions, and to raise a gothic cathedral takes more than an opinion'. - Christian Johann Heinrich Heine

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Althouh he treated her like a home improvement project, Napoleon was nice enough to invite Désirée to follow Josephine at his imperial coronation.

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Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine. - Kurt Gödel

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When the Greek idea of logic is penetrated by Christian theology, something new is born: the medium of language, in which the mediation of the incarnation event achieves its full truth. - Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, p. 427

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A complete Rainbow, photo taken at 30,000 feet altitude by Pilot Lloyd J Ferraro. 📷 Lloyd J. Ferraro

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Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history. - Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

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On Friday 29 April, I graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Theology and Religious Studies from @Peterhouse_Cam @Cambridge_Uni .

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All knowers know God implicitly in all they know. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

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I will soon begin teaching for @uaustinorg

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Introducing Ryan Haecker ( @RyanHaecker ), Assistant Professor of Theology. Dr. Haecker comes from the University of Cambridge, and explores the absolute questions of logic, science, and technology. Read more:

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Tomorrow morning, I will graduate with a PhD degree in Theology from @Peterhouse_Cam @Cambridge_Uni

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Truth never ages. Ideologies have their days numbered. - Pope Benedict XVI

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Plato's Academy, Athens

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90 years ago, in 1933, Alfonso Bialetti invented the Moka Express and changed the image of domestic coffee in Italy and perhaps worldwide.

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The Father of the Fathers of the Church

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"Compline still contains the mystical and metaphysical primeval power of night, which we have to pierce continually in order truly exist.. The Compline: a symbol of the existence being held out into the night and of the inner necessity of daily readiness for it..." - M. Heidegger

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Diotima's ladder of love in a bottle

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A rare snow leopard roaming on Mount Everest at 18,000ft, photo published in @thetimes today by Kittiya Pawlowski.

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Protestant vs. Catholic cinema #Boppenheimer

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It’s the 700th anniversary of the death of the great poet Dante Alighieri, the Father of Italian Language!

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Ideas for a future home

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The skull of Thomas Aquinas gets a ride in a Jeep

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Passage of the Monks to Mount Athos Monastery - Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, 1905.

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Universal Salvation > Double Predestination

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Share if you think love is more powerful than Hegelian dialectics

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I've seen the future, and it is Latin Mass

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Hegel on the downfall of the Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte: "Great events have transpired about us. It is a frightful spectacle to see a great genius destroy himself. There is nothing more tragic [in Greek]. The entire mass of mediocrity, with its irresistible leaden weight of

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"The believer is someone who is inhabited, more deeply and comprehensively than others, by the holy presence out of which all things come, and is at the same time an inhabitant of a world that is larger than that immediately visible or tangible." - Rowan Williams

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Michel Foucault Monopoly: the board game for our time.

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Guilin Mountains, China

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"When a Nietzsche, a Dostoyevsky, a Kierkegaard uncovers a human universe for us, when the material universe displays [before us] the depths of the history of the earth or spaces between the stars, theological thought is obliged to broaden itself to their measure." - Jean…

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“One who has hope lives differently.” ― Pope Benedict XVI

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Napoleon gave his one-time fiancée Désirée Clary a reading list so she would be less boring. Later, she married Jean Bernadotte, became the Queen of Sweden, & joined the Sixth Coalition to overthrow Napoleon.

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Metal worked peacock doors designed in 1925 by Tiffany for the C.D. Peacock jewelry store, Chicago, Illinois.

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