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Four Hundred Texts on Love 26
100. When the intellect is established in God, it at first ardently longs to discover the principles of His essence. But God’s inmost nature does not admit of such investigation, which is indeed beyond the capacity of everything created. The qualities that appertain to His nature, however, are accessible to the intellect’s longing: I mean [...]
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Four Hundred Texts on Love 9
31. Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul. Although this text is really just an expanded thought from the Epistle of James, I’m struck by the physicality of the text. Faith alone, which James calls the [...]
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Original Sin 14 – The Two Natures of Christ
Whether through the hands of another human being, in the narrative text of the Holy Scriptures, or through some sense of direct connection, it has always been Jesus of Nazareth, called the Christ, who draws me toward Christianity and who keeps me circling in a whirlpool of love with Jesus at its center. But I [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 12 – The Law and the Prophets
Athanasius continues to look at the efforts by God to make the Word known to man. Earlier we saw how he had placed the divine image in man, but that had not sufficed as man turned and worshiped that which was no God. But since men’s carelessness, by little and little, descends to lower things, [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 5 – God Gives Life, Man Seeks the Corruption of Death
In the next chapter, Athanasius emphasize that God not only created us from nothing, but freely gives us life. For God has not only made us out of nothing; but He gave us freely, by the Grace of the Word, a life in correspondence with God. … “God made man for incorruption, and as an [...]
On the Incarnation of the Word 4 – Intimately Connected With Our Creation
In this next section of Athanasius’ treatise, we begin to encounter an idea that seems to have largely been lost in modern, Western Christianity. Namely, it is the central idea that it is entirely within God that we live and move and have our being. God is. Evil is not. For transgression of the commandment [...]
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Baptists, Eucharist, and History 17 – St. Cyprian of Carthage to St. Cornelius of Rome
Now we move right to the middle of the third century with St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage. Today, we’ll look at his letter to St. Cornelius, Bishop of Rome. (As an interesting side note that I’m not sure many Protestants know, the Latin papa (or pappa) meaning ‘father’ is the word that Romans in particular [...]
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Baptists, Eucharist, and History 16 – Tertullian
I hesitate to include Tertullian in my series. He is not, strictly speaking, a Father of the Church since he is not recognized as a saint and actually ended his life as a schismatic. I tend to tread carefully and mostly stick to the recognized Fathers. That’s why you won’t see me referring to Origen [...]
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Baptists, Eucharist, and History 15 – Irenaeus on Christ’s True Flesh
We’re going to examine most of Chapter II, Book V, Against Heresies in today’s post. Before we start, I will note that Irenaeus is refuting a specific group of those who held that our corruptible flesh is incapable of incorruption and resurrection. This was likely one of the gnostic groups, but I’m struck by the [...]
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Heaven & Earth (& Hell) 8 – The Concentration Camp and Separation from God