first advent of Christ and will beconsummatedat the Parousia, the Second Coming of Christ as king and judge. The festival of the Resurrection, orEaster, is ritually re-enacted every year in order that the believer may participate in the present and future kingdom of peace. Theeucharisticfeast...
The fact that many Christians holdnominalbeliefs and do not act like followers of Christ has been noted since the 4th century, when the church ceased to be persecuted. To account for this,St. Augustineproposed that the real church is an invisible entity known only to God.Martin Lutherused th...
It represents the re-assertion of a certain awful common-sense which characterised the most extreme utterances of Christ. It is true that we cannot turn the cheek to the smiter; it is true that we cannot give our cloak to the robber; civilisation is too complicated, too vainglorious, too ...
The bottom line is this: If a mom on social media isn’t helping you be a better form of yourself or, better yet, helping you grow closer to Christ, like the sweet friendships that are mentioned in Proverbs 27:9, then it may be time to sever ties. Beware of these four toxic-mom...
Followers accept the power ofcharismatic authoritybecause they are drawn to the leader’s personal qualities. The appeal of a charismatic leader can be extraordinary, and can inspire followers to make unusual sacrifices or to persevere in the midst of great hardship and persecution. Charismatic leader...
Like Leonardo, who "fixed the outward type of Christ for succeeding centuries," Pater "fixes" Dante as the "central expression and type" of ideal love in the late Middle Ages (R, 98, 23). Leonardo's image of the "outward type of Christ" represents an unrecorded physiognomy...
of Christ crucified in a finished and ongoing way. The word “crucified” is in the Greek verb tense called “perfect.” The action is complete with lingering reality. Before the cross made a way out of space-time into eternity, people lacked access to the creative source of LIFE. Death ...
limits and structures. Like Christ, there may be doubts at the last minute whether the sacrifices were all worth it. In short, Capricorn rising needs to ‘make something of the self’ and achieve some degree of collective validation and respect. They may rebel and try to escape lessons and...
All of them have once had a guilty and get the expiable (kafare) of the guilty.Aristotle deposited logic so that his followers, the poetic or the rhetoric, make excuses from his sins. Birooni by the water of washed his hands of the blood of all who were killed by Mahmood. Khajeh ...
Rain and bad light are blights that cricket followers learn to withstand with greater or lesser levels of endurance. But they can be the mainspring for passages of play that lift a game out of the doldrums. Adams winked at Cork when he bowled him a bouncer; and he delivered the coup de...