Part 1: God Became Man – Conceived by the Holy Spirit
Since we are on a roll, I thought I would just continue the discussion of the Incarnation of the Son of God by looking at the next chapter in my
Since we are on a roll, I thought I would just continue the discussion of the Incarnation of the Son of God by looking at the next chapter in my
Taking all the above as given, it is still worth noting that, from time to time, some theologians have speculated on the question of whether the Incarnation would have happened
Understanding that the core reason for the Incarnation was “for our salvation”, Catholic tradition has teased out four ways this salvation unfolds for us. According to the Catechism (CCC 457-460):
That is what the story of the Fall is about in Genesis 3. When our first parents rejected the life of God, they lost it not just for themselves, but
About a century after the Creed was formulated at Nicaea, another controversy (involving a man named Pelagius) would drive the Western Church to work out in greater detail this mysterious
Finishing off our discussion of rational animals from yesterday, we continue: *** Indeed, the medieval mind would take this very far, even granting (in popular legend, not in the Church’s
Another odd manifestation of physicalism focuses on location rather than size. The argument goes, “We’re on a planet like billions of others, orbiting an average star about two-thirds of the
I thought I might take advantage of the season to do a bit of catechesis on the Incarnation of the Son of God. I have been working for some years
Yesterday I mentioned Augustine’s discussions of the possibility of other rational corporeal creatures in the universe. (As a Christian, he already accepted the idea of incorporeal rational creatures called “angels”
Over on the Book of Face, I ran across this, the umpteenth restatement of a hoary claim that keeps returning like a zombie from the grave: Modern Christianity mostly revolves
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