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Category Archives: Theologizing Faith
The Other Benedict Option
Originally at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2015/12/the-other-benedict-option.html by Marc Barnes When I first heard the term “Benedict Option” I thought it referred to the popular movement to elect Benedict Cumberbatch as the leader of the Free World, and as such, was all about it. Upon … Continue reading
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Joyous Surrender: A Rhapsody in Red (and Green)
Originally at: http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/12/16183/ by Joseph Bottum I love the elegant Christmas-dining pictures in Bon Appétit. The holiday dishes and cutlery in the pricey Williams-Sonoma catalogue. The winter ornaments and widgets arranged so beautifully by Restoration Hardware. The season’s advertisements in the New Yorker, the Sunday Times magazine, House Beautiful, and … Continue reading
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Dean of Orthodox Jewish Theologians, Dies at 87
Originally at: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/196026/michael-wyschogrod-obit by David P. Goldman The Jewish philosopher Michael Wyschogrod died Dec. 17 at the age of 87, after a long illness. He was old enough to have stood with his father across the street from Berlin’s main synagogue as … Continue reading
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The Cult of Christopher Hitchens
Originally at: http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/the-cult-of-christopher-hitchens by Sean Haylock Like many bright but impressionable youngsters I was greatly taken-in by the charisma and bravura bombast of the late Christopher Hitchens. In fact, I became a Hitchens groupie. I even own a t-shirt with his likeness … Continue reading
Does God exist?
Fantastic three part series on demonstrating God’s existence, by Fr Rovert Spitzer: http://www.strangenotions.com/introducing-bernard-lonergans-philosophical-proof-for-god/ http://www.strangenotions.com/the-one-cause-behind-everything-else-in-reality/ http://www.strangenotions.com/why-the-ultimate-cause-of-everything-in-existence-must-be-god/
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EVOLUTION OF THE SOUL AND IMMORTALITY IN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
Originally at: http://www.slate.com/bigideas/is-there-life-after-death/essays-and-opinions/nt-wright-opinion by RT. REV. N.T. WRIGHT Immortality is the condition of not being subject to death. The ancient pagan view of the gods as “immortal” was one way (along with their invisibility) of distinguishing them from humans; in other respects … Continue reading
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The Love That Brings New Life Into the World
Originally at: http://www.kofc.org/un/en/columbia/detail/love-that-brings-new-life-into-world.html by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Editor’s Note: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and a member of the House of Lords, was a keynote speaker at an international conference at the Vatican titled “The … Continue reading
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Save Marriage? It’s Too Late.
Originally at: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122721519267045365 by DONALD SENSING Opponents of legalized same-sex marriage say they’re trying to protect a beleaguered institution, but they’re a little late. The walls of traditional marriage were breached 40 years ago; what we are witnessing now is the storming … Continue reading
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What is the World?
An article well-worth reading on a Catholic view of “the world”: http://www.ignitumtoday.com/2015/04/18/what-is-the-world/
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The Kingdom and the Power: What the Resurrection Means, Then and Now
Originally at: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2015/04/10/4213929.htm by NT Wright I have argued at considerable length that we cannot understand the historical rise of the early Christian movement unless we take as basic their belief that Jesus was bodily raised from the dead, leaving an … Continue reading
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Catholic Springtime 