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August 2018

August 27, 2018
Dionysius, continuing with his apophatic denials, purifying us from the limitations which would be imposed...
August 23, 2018
Faith is to be lived, not researched. Faith, fidelity, is manifest in love, in the...
August 21, 2018
One of the earliest leaders of the church, Nicolaus, was called out in the Apocalypse...
August 20, 2018
God is not to be confused with creation. Pantheistic interpretations of God which suggest he...
August 16, 2018
God is one, simple, transcendent, divine principle. We talk about God with many names, but...
August 15, 2018
How can we know God if he transcends us? In the Kabbalah, the answer comes...
August 14, 2018
Lactantius, talking about those who were honored for virtuously seeking the highest good in truth,...
August 13, 2018
God neither lives, nor is life, though Dionysius indicated in the Divine Names that God...
August 08, 2018
When Paul wrote to the Ephesians, he told them that by becoming Christian, they were...
August 07, 2018
God in Scripture is called the light as it declared him to be the light...
August 06, 2018
On Mount Tabor, Peter, James and John saw Jesus transformed in glory. “And after six...
August 02, 2018
Many Christians read Scripture, and dogmatic teachings of their church, misunderstanding the means by which...

July 2018

July 31, 2018
The news media plays an important role in that it helps form and spread public...
July 30, 2018
In the Divine Names, Dionysius explained how power is often used as a name for...
July 26, 2018
Tolkien in the opening section of The Silmarillion, the Ainulindalë, presents an explanation for evil...
July 24, 2018
Silence in a time of injustice allows such injustice to continue. Silence in the face...
July 23, 2018
Holding to the teaching that no concept which we have of God can be affirmed...
July 19, 2018
Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his...
July 17, 2018
The Church reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, any discrimination against men or...
July 16, 2018
There is no comparison between God and his creation; comparative predications which can be used...
July 12, 2018
The Psalmist, pleading to God, once indicated how God’s justice could be seen in the...
July 10, 2018
Wealth, government, industry and science, all are goods in and of themselves. But each of...
July 09, 2018
Scripture calls God one in many places, such as in the shema: "Hear, O Israel:...
July 05, 2018
Come and drink of the grapes of God’s wrath. Pressed down and beaten for our...
July 03, 2018
During the reign of Diocletian, St. Theodore of Cyrene was an enemy of the state....
July 02, 2018
God neither is expressed, nor conceived.  All that we say about God is not God,...

June 2018

June 29, 2018
It is not uncommon for some non-Christians to try to pit the teachings of Jesus...
June 26, 2018
Throughout Christian history, Christians have had to deal with nationalistic xenophobia. Christianity embraces universality over...
June 25, 2018
CAPUT V. That the pre-eminent Cause of every object of intelligible perception is none of...
June 21, 2018
Evolution shows us not only that there is a continuity between humanity and the rest...
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