A Higher Office
Fr. Thomas Williams (no relation) on Catholic social teaching; good interview!
A Higher Office
Fr. Thomas Williams (no relation) on Catholic social teaching; good interview!
Still don’t think reinforcing Amazon’s monopsony is the thing to do.
Very useful discussion, especially given how loosely people use the term “fundamentalist.”
I’ve often wondered this same thing. There has to be a systematic theological argument out there for the ongoing significance of the LXX, expanding on Augustine and taking into account that it remains authoritative for the Eastern Church.
Here is wisdom.
Another one for my students, too often taught to slavishly avoid the passive even when their style or arguments would be improved by it.
Priceless for the opening illustration alone.
The constant recitation of God’s transcendent goodness and the deference paid to his ironclad ability to lift believers magically out of suffering and woe both subtly downgrade the divine presence into a glorified lifestyle concierge. This God has no real way of accounting for the age-old paradoxes of theology, such as the tolerance of personal and historic evil, or the deeper ironies and unintended consequences of the believing life.
The Prosperity Gospel is heresy in a clown suit.
the success of “Sherlock,” the television series that casts him as a cool and contemporary — if brutally rational — upgrade of Sherlock Holmes. It returns on May 6 for a second season on PBS’s “Masterpiece Mystery!”
So looking forward to this.
For most people, the choice is not leisurely walks on Cape Cod versus social media. It’s television versus social media.
Follow-up to the Word post, with a light intro to Scrivener, aka the Batman of writing tools.
A good description of the darkling plain.
Something for the students as they write their papers. I see every one of these misuses and more besides. It’s enough to make me start doing a course just on digital workflows and academic tools.
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Essential tips for reading the deluge of polls that we’ll experience between now and November; general wisdom for every strain of partisan, completely independent of political views, from Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com.
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Buy the book; I am.
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Historically, then, how Christians have understood Jesus’ “resurrection” says a lot about how they have understood themselves, whether they have a holistic view of the human person, whether they see bodily existence as trivial or crucial, and how they imagine full salvation to be manifested.
Just so.
Apropos for the day, from one of the best NT scholars I know of, and just the thing for some common misconceptions.
A better explanation of what I always tell my students!
So true.
Something for the students or auditors among us.
Sierra and Peanut
Christmas Tree
Fr. Barron hits the spot on how to see the new Mass translation.
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For everyone heading into finals and the end of the semester!
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Equally good for undergraduate majors, graduate students, and those simply interested in theology.