Answering Todd's Question
A continuation of the discussion that started over my letter of disaffiliation with the AAC...Todd Granger writes:"Simply put, no, I don't think that you've declared yourselves out of communion with...
View ArticleLetter to Jason Loh (Augustinian Successor)
If you can't at least be civil (let alone act like a Christian), then I'd appreciate if you wouldn't visit my blog. Don't worry, I won't waste my time visiting yours either. Don't bother writing back....
View ArticleThe Meaning of "Liturgy"
The term "liturgy" means different things depending on context. Considered as a field of scholarly inquiry, "liturgy" refers to worship in general. A liturgiologist is someone who studies how various...
View ArticleEvolution and Incarnation
The following excerpt was taken from an article by Roland over at his blogTwo Natures. I found it insightful.Evolution and the IncarnationIn a stereotypical creationist-vs.-atheist debate, I have no...
View ArticleScience vs. Norse Mythology
See The Pain. Warning: language may be offensive to more sensitive audiences.
View ArticleGod Speed Jeffrey!
Fr. Jeffrey Steel of De Cura Animarum has recently announced that he is swimming the Tiber. By last count that makes eight of my former students who have gone either to Rome or Orthodoxy. Jeff is a man...
View ArticleStanding in the Gap - Sermon for Pentecost 7
“We are called to stand in the gap and that has not and will not change.”(Carol Barnwell, Communications Director, Diocese of Texas, July 2009)Sometimes we can be very naïve in our reading of the New...
View ArticleThe Bread of Life - Sermon Preached on Pentecost 10
1 Kings 19:4-8Psalm 34:1-8Ephesians 4:25-52John 6:35, 41-51Many of the stories in the Old Testament have an epic character to them, where the forces of good battle against forces of evil. This is no...
View ArticleMy New Blog
Come and visit my new blog: "post.catholic project." I'm writing under the nom de plume, "Father Thomas."
View ArticleMythopoeia Ancient & Modern
"Standing right at the pivot point of the Axial Age are the sacred texts of the biblical tradition, written over the course of some eight centuries, more or less, but certainly preserving stories that...
View ArticleThe Quest for the Mythistorical Jesus
...Jesus is not the kind of person that history typically remembers. Indeed, the shortcomings of "questing" for the historical Jesus is simply that what can be known about Jesus historically, apart...
View ArticleThe Quest Continues with "The Witness of the Empty Tomb"
Barth had never held or insinuated that the resurrection of Christ had been anything but a physical resurrection or that the Church's faith in the resurrection was rooted in anything less than...
View ArticleAn Evolutionary Look at Creation, the Fall, and Our Restoration in Christ
Creation is an act of kenosis, i.e. a "self-emptying," whereby the Creator pours out the divine-self to "make room" for something other than the divine-self. Yet creation is not so much "event" as it...
View ArticleClarity, Full Disclosure & A Way Forward: Standing in the Wake of General...
A Sermon Preached at Good Shepherd, Tomball
View ArticleOn the Nature of Demons
In the world of the universe that is, demons have no reality apart from that which they derive from us. They are not real; yet that does not mean they do not exist. They exist as pure potential, as...
View ArticleRehabilitating Arius (An excerpt from post.catholic project)
Yet, still, there is an element of truth in Arius' statement: "There was a time when he was not." To speak of a "pre-incarnate Christ," that is from a temporal point of reference, is nonsensical....
View ArticleRehabilitating Arius, Part Two
Theological language serves as boundary and parameter, as pedagogue and teacher; but preeminently it serves as witness. In this sense, it speaks forth referential truth rather than descriptive truth...
View ArticleNatural (s)Election: Incarnation & Evolution
From a theistic-evolutionary perspective, not only can we "hardly afford to reify the Edenic myth of the earth as a place in the universe specially prepared to await the arrival of our species," but we...
View ArticleA Theological Narrative of Theistic Evolution
...Given the unfathomable gulf of being, divine grace from a distance can only hope to persuade through imperfect witness, hoping to woo a self-aware cosmos into receiving the divine "in the fullness...
View ArticleRehabilitating Pelagius: The Making of the West's Most Notorious "Heretic"
Rehabilitating Pelagius: The Making of the West's Most Notorious "Heretic"That Augustine did indeed retain something of his former Manichee views of human nature seems a fair assessment on Pelagius's...
View ArticleNatural (s)Election, Part Two
No longer can the theologian afford to regard anthropos as the sole object of God's redemptive love, the exclusive image-bearer, or the center of the created order. If natural selection means anything...
View ArticleRehabilitating Nestorius (Part One): Historical Background
Like the his compatriots of the Antiochene school, Nestorius was a dyophysite, ironically, the position that would ultimately win the day at the Council of Chalcedon (451). Had it been as simple as the...
View ArticleRehabilitating Nestorius (Part Two)
It should come as no surprise then that the near-immediate result of Chalcedon was major schism, on both sides of the divide: those who could not assent to the condemnation of Nestorius as well as...
View ArticleTheodicy and Determinism: Leibniz's Folly of the "Best Possible World"
The theodicy conundrum is typically set up as a "best possible worlds" dilemma: of all possible worlds that could have been created, why would an all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful God create a...
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