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The Jesus Creed 8 – Joseph: The Story of Reputation

By Scott | Published: August 25, 2010
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord you God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these. This is a series of reflections [...]
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Evangelical Is Not Enough 5

By Scott | Published: February 6, 2010
Thomas Howard’s fifth chapter is titled: Hail, Blessed Virgin Mary: What Did the Angel Mean? Oddly, to my mind, he uses that introduction to explore how marriage is both a spiritual and physical union in a way that is intertwined and inseparable. He then builds on that to show how the foundation of Christian faith, [...]
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For the Life of the World 23

By Scott | Published: January 22, 2010
The series now moves to section 2 of the fifth chapter of For the Life of the World. Here is the link to Deacon Michael Hyatt’s  first podcast on chapter five. For the Life of the World: Part Eleven Perhaps the Orthodox vision of this sacrament will be better understood if we begin not with [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 35 – Prophecies Satisfied in Christ Alone

By Scott | Published: October 3, 2009
In this section, Athanasius continues to expound the prophecies in Scripture of Christ and how they were fulfilled in him alone. But all Scripture teems with refutations of the disbelief of the Jews. For which of the righteous men and holy prophets, and patriarchs, recorded in the divine Scriptures, ever had his corporal birth of [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 18 – Humanity and Divinity Manifested Through His Body

By Scott | Published: September 10, 2009
In today’s section, Athanasius is saying something a bit more subtle than simply that Jesus’ miracles prove he was God. But especially in our modern context, it seems to me that his deeper point can easily be missed. Athanasius is making the point that both the humanity of Jesus and the divine Logos were made [...]
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