http://bdhamilton.com Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:18:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More than two decades after President Ronald Reagan escalated the war on drugs, arrests for drug sales or, more often, drug possession are still rising. And despite public debate and limited efforts to reduce them, large disparities persist in the rate at which blacks and whites are arrested and imprisoned ... http://bdhamilton.com/articles/war-on-drugs Alan Jacobs has a nice short piece in the most recent First Things about his 'commonplace book,' a place where he collects and keeps particularly good quotes, images, and whatever else strikes him most profoundly. The commonplace book is an old and well-attested literary practice, performed by many of the ... http://bdhamilton.com/articles/a-commonplace-book We must have no such ideas, no such thoughts about that Word. We must not form images of spiritual realities in materialistic terms. That Word, that God, is not less in his parts than in the whole. But you are quite unable to imagine or think of such a thing. ... http://bdhamilton.com/articles/if-you-can-grasp-it-it-isnt-god If you want to understand the body of Christ, listen to the apostle telling the faithful "You, though, are the body of Christ and its members" (1 Cor 12:27). So if it's you that are the body of Christ and its members, it's the mystery meaning you that has been ... http://bdhamilton.com/articles/you-are-the-mystery-on-the-table "The faithful come to see and know the body of Christ, if they do not neglect to be the body of Christ. Let them become the body of Christ, if they wish to live according to Christ's spirit.—Norunt fideles corpus Christi, si corpus Christi esse non negligant. Fiant corpus Christi, ... http://bdhamilton.com/articles/let-them-become-the-body-of-christ But whichever you think the ascending scale ends in, affirmation or negation, the common mistake--as I should think it to be--is in the shared misconstrual of the relationship between the moments of affirmation and the moments of negation; for that relationship structures theological utterance at every stage: indeed, it is ... http://bdhamilton.com/articles/the-apophatic-structure-of-theology For either there was some material light, whether in the the upper regions of the universe, far removed from our sight, or in the regions from which the sun later derived its light; or else the word 'light' here [in Gen. 1:3] means the Holy City which consist of the ... http://bdhamilton.com/articles/twilight-and-morning-knowledge p{text-align:center;}. http://bdhamilton.com/articles/disapproval Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of St. Augustine, by R. A. Markus. New York: Cambridge University Press, c1970, 1988. 254pp. The resourcefulness of this book is breathtaking, as is its scope, and it deserves to be read (if I can be forgiven so frank a display of academic awe) purely ... http://bdhamilton.com/articles/robert-a-markus-saeculum "There is no Christian ethics that is not 'evangelical', i.e. good news. There can be no change of voice, no shift of mood, between God's word of forgiveness and his word of demand, no obedience-without-gift, no gift-without-obedience. The gift and the obedience are in fact one and the same. They ... http://bdhamilton.com/articles/the-righteousness-of-jesus-christ