The paradox of Christianity: Right or Left wing ... ?John Biggs
that Christianity was true. This is why the faith has that elaboration of doctrines and details which so much distresses those who admire Christianity without believing in it. When once one believes in a creed, one is proud of its complexity, as scientists are proud of the complexity of scie...
and she will return to him. The underlying paradox is that love, precisely as the Absolute, should not be posited as a direct goal—it should retain the status of a byproduct, of something we get as an undeserved grace. Perhaps
On the other hand, the epistles are also full of exhortation to live out the transformation that is effected upon us. This indeed does take human effort, and lots of it, like beating one’s body to make it one’s slave. Lutheranism as I have been taught it would explain these exhortat...
2.Paradise- (Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death Heaven- the abode of God and the angels Christian religion,Christianity- a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the ...
1. Highlight the Paradox. Part of adulthood is learning to cope with complexity. When we are children, there are clear goodies and baddies in our movies and books, but as we get older, we understand that life is not so black and white. This is not a compromise but a growin...
The NY Paradox October 2, 2024 ~ steve2525 ~ Leave a comment The NY Governors office was recently raided by FBI who found a Chinese spy embedded in the Governors office as a top aid/advisor of the Governor. The Governor expressed shock and outrage at discovering her close aid was a ...
Christianitythe paradox of Incarnationhistorical timetheology of historyphilosophy of historyThe article focuses on the attempt of the philosophers of French personalism to re-conceptualise the relation between the Christian religion and history. The main impetus to undertake such...
THE CHRISTIANITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY* arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the 'secular' social sciences to have severed... F Cannell - 《Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute》...
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