(People say that one can never know the character of a western king until he has undergone the two important tests of his mistress and his confessor; we shall soon be watching those two struggling for control of the king’s mind; then there will be some great battles! For, when the kin...
doi:10.35974/ISC.V6I1.1836Ismael P. CabasonAbstract Proceedings International Scholars Conference
Erasmus perceived and championed strong Hellenistic rather than exclusively Hebraic influences on the intellectual milieux of Jesus, Paul, and the early church: "If only the Christian church did not attach so much importance to the Old Testament!"[note 78] Perhaps the only Jewish book he publish...
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the conflict between contemplative purity and the dangers of public duties. He formally enumerated theseven deadly sinsand the correspondingseven heavenly virtues. He supplied a way for Christians to deal with life’s “adversities” and “prosperities,” teaching that both could be signs of either...
(if they belonged to one of the parties), andActsdepicts the leading Pharisee,Gamaliel, as defending the Christians (Acts 5:34). It is possible that Paul believed that Jewishconvertsto the new movement were not sufficiently observant of the Jewish law, that Jewish converts mingled too freely...
You have said; Quote, “Jesus preached to jewish believers…he did not have to explain the importance of the Torah to them…this was understood….he did not come to abolish the Torah but to fulfill it. gentile believers would have to have this explained to them…they did not hear Jesus...
(I confess to my own struggle with the Christly precept of loving the haters. Yes, we all fall short, but the so-called Christians cheering the triumph of our basest impulses are, IMHO, falling short with unseemly enthusiasm. As Henry James noted, “when you hate you want to triumph.”...
The problem with this, as Ignatius later hinted at, is that it has all the makings of a self-help trap in which we risk running out ahead of grace instead of cooperating with it. The Importance of the Floating Pronouns Ignatius understood the deeper meaning of the floating pronouns this ...
In Augustine’s sermon, the verse becomes a commentary on the importance of humility before Christ with cross-references to Peter and the sons of Zebedee. We sin, as they did in the gospels, by trying to rise before the light, which means trying to rise before Christ. We can only rise...