That’swhat we need to concentrate on: the foundational truths like those we recite in the Apostles’ Creed, and our purpose of introducing others to Christ as well as taking delight in obeying him and growing more like him. Even more important? A covering of love—love that admits wrong,...
and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”What would a first-century Israelite think if an angel of the LORD announced the coming of a "savior?" They would doubtless think back to all the saviors in the [Old Testament] Scriptures. Those saviors did not just promise a tic...
”‘Christ in the Tomb,’ and/or “The Women at the Tomb.” These images are all related to the biblical stories of the resurrection. These resurrection stories are narrated in the Christian scriptures in Matthew 28:1-7; Mark 16:1-7; Luke 24:1-10 and John 20:1-9. An additional...
When they discussed the Scriptures at their meetings, it was evidently most often from memory. In the apostles’ day there were still many people living who had known and spoken with Jesus during his earthly ministry. They could recount and discuss things they had seen and heard....
(4) Those who had dreams about Jesus seem to have all had some prior contact with Christians, the Gospel, or with the Scriptures that left an indelible impression. What was revealed in the dream had first been revealed to them in real life experience. The dreams merely replicated those expe...
As Hannon indicates, Saint Thomas reads the liturgy like he reads the Scriptures. Beneath the ‘husk’ of the literal sense, Saint Thomas finds the deeper spiritual meaning, an often-allegorical reading of the kind which has been so disdained in modern liturgical scholarship, but which is so ...
This is the law of Scripture. That I came not to abolish but to fulfill the Jewish law and the Jewish prophets, for there was no other Scripture in the first century but the Jewish Scriptures. So, the word Jew is not placed before it to qualify it but the only Scripture that he knew...
“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be CAUGHT UP together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. ...
If you are going to make statements on the basis of the Christian faith, George, please base your statements on the Creeds, the Scriptures, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. George May 7, 2008 @ 1:54 am Dear Lynda, Forgive me if my comments appear offensive. Perhaps my comments...
While later cathedrals would pursue the Gothic dematerialization of the built structure, with walls becoming thinner and transparent with glass, and ceilings reaching toward the sky, Durham exudes a sense of solidity and weight. Thick walls and massive pillars, supporting the heavy stone roof, signif...