Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
An intriguing suggestion from J.N.D. Kelly's Early Christian Doctrines. First, concerning Ambrosiaster's influential Commentary on Romans: Ambrosiaster's teaching is particularly noteworthy because it relies on an exegesis of Rom. 5, 12 which, though mistaken and based on a false reading, was to become the pivot of the doctrine of original sin. In the Greek St. …
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So Jesus, who is our God, is at the same time our mediator, our almighty intercessor, to whom God does not refuse anything, and there is no other name by which we should be saved. Let us put our trust in Jesus, who is God and mediator together and, even greater and above Moses, as …
From Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, on the early career of Moses: Pastors, leaders of souls, whoever you are, do not think you can save them without it costing you: admire in Moses the persecutions of Jesus, and drink the chalice of his passion.
As you see here: https://youtu.be/QP9roQQwzsA "Bill Clinton's Eucharistic Theology" is my catty description of Zwinglian theology, which posits that the Holy Communion is a mere symbol. As I noted in my piece entitled Bill Clinton's Eucharistic Theology: It Depends Upon What Is Is: Until the Reformation Christianity uniformly confessed that, when Our Lord said “is” …
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Yes, he does: An internationally renowned Anglican bishop and former chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is leaving the Anglican Church to become a Catholic. Bishop Gavin Ashenden will be received into full communion by Shrewsbury's Bp. Mark Davies on the fourth Sunday of Advent at Shrewsbury Cathedral, England. From the standpoint of the online Anglican-Episcopal world, this …
Scripture has been opened up anew by historical-critical scholarship and, I admit, locked up anew as well. It has been opened up anew: thanks to the labors of exegesis we hear the Word fo the Bible in a completely new way in its historical originality, in the variety of a developing and growing history, with […] …
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I probably spend more time than I should online following seminary academics. That's not just considering their impact on me: sometimes they bite back, especially if they're of a Reformed background. In any case a series of events has led me to discover something called anatheism, which is the discovery (for want of a better …
Just saw the tweet at the right. I think it's hilarious that people have started to refer to the Occupant of the See of St. Peter as "that man in Rome." American history buffs will remember that some Republicans, unable to utter his name, used to refer to Franklin D. Roosevelt as "that man in …
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“The Burke critique is simple enough. Church teaching on questions like marriage’s indissolubility is supposed to be unchanging, and that’s what he’s upholding: “I haven’t changed. I’m still teaching the same things I always taught and they’re not my ideas.” What is unchanging certainly can’t be altered by an individual pontiff: “The pope is not […] …
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I was born in Arlington, TX and spent most of my childhood in and around the Fort Worth area. When I was in high school, my family moved to Chattanooga, TN. I then went on to UTK for my undergraduate degree. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with my life and ended […] …
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