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Jesus, warning his listeners to be ever watchful, ever diligent, to preserve the spirit of...

“That’s what the truth teaches. Emotion has nothing to do with it. Who cares if...

Kataphatic theology, when done right, offers up an approximation for the absolute truth by rendering...

On the final Sunday of January, 2014, when Pope Francis, with the help of children,...

God is infinite, while all created beings are finite. This is a very traditional philosophical...

In the epistle to the Romans, St. Paul references Psalm 14, where the Psalmist declared:...

As we engage God, as we grow as a result of that engagement, our understanding...

The city of Sodom was a city of extreme selfishness and luxury. The people who...

“I don’t tell my children about Santa Clause. I don’t want to lie to them.”...

“It is self-evident that there is no comparative relation of the infinite to the finite,”...

Many people, upon hearing the term “interfaith” or “inter-religious” dialogue, misunderstand what exactly is being...

Alexander Schmemann noted that our relationship with God will be manifest in the way we...

God reveals himself to us, but what we can apprehend of that revelation is less...

It is commonly accepted that St. Paul was not married. This is how his words,...

In one of the most important revelations concerning the nature of God in Scripture, God...

As California faces the deadliest wildfires in its recorded history, with forty-two people confirmed dead,[1] ...

Kataphatic and apophatic theology are two ways we can talk about God. Dionysius, having expressed...

When theologizing and philosophizing, we like to use reason to produce unconditional results. We gravitate...

In the early years of the Christian faith, Christians found themselves in a rather unusual...

When we seek after God, we must realize that we can never comprehend him. Then,...

In the reflections recorded in his book, My Life in Christ, St. John of Kronstadt...

In Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov was the cool, intellectual brother whose nihilistic rationalism provided...

God, being beyond all exiting things, transcends human reason. Any attempt to define God using...

This week, Trump declared himself to a nationalist. “America First” is, as many have known...

Scripture warns us that those who do evil make for and establish the means by...

Since God transcends all things, Dionysius explained that nothing is able to know God as...

There is a war being waged on the poor throughout the world. And the more...

“The last enemy to be destroyed is death” (1 Cor. 15:26 RSV). Death is said...

Dionysius, continuing with his presentation of the transcendence of God, explained neither is It [God]...

God’s potential is fully active and realized in his one simple eternal action.  While we...