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2024-10-15T02:25:46-05:00

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PRS* XXII Politics

Last updated on: October 15, 2024 at 2:25 am By Henry Karlson

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If I had my way, I would find myself staying away from politics and all the intrigue which comes from it, leaving it for someone else. For, by nature, I tend to be semi-hermitic, wanting to stay to mostly myself. I also know I can’t do that. I know that I have a responsibility to the world I live in. I am to help take care of it and preserve it for future generations. I am expected to be a... Read more

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Politics and Religion

2024-10-13T02:25:42-05:00

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Clericalism, And The Canons Of II Nicea

Last updated on: October 13, 2024 at 2:25 am By Henry Karlson

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What people most often remember about ecumenical councils, if anything, are the dogmatic questions and debates which preceded them, and the authoritative responses the councils gave to those debates. Sadly, many do not know how to read the conciliar responses; they interpret them in a very literalistic fashion, thinking the letter of the text, as they interpret it long after the text was written, exhausts the meaning intended by the text itself, despite the fact that those involved in establishing... Read more

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Seventh Ecumenical Council

2024-10-11T02:31:11-05:00

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Freedom, Kenosis, And Love

Last updated on: October 11, 2024 at 2:31 am By Henry Karlson

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When we pray for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, we pray for the temporal creation to be united with and penetrated by the kingdom of God so that God will be all in all. It is the goal that God has for creation. As God created the world out of an act of pure love, God has given creation its own freedom, a freedom, to be sure, which is not absolute (as only... Read more

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2024-10-09T02:15:10-05:00

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PRS* XXI Recognizing The Limitations Of Theological Systems

Last updated on: October 9, 2024 at 2:15 am By Henry Karlson

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Throughout all my life, I have been drawn to theological pursuits. When I was an adolescent, and a Baptist, that meant reading Scripture, trying to understand what I read, and then taking that understanding and establishing my own systematic presentation of the faith. It was, to be sure, a rather limited and simplistic theological endeavor, and yet at the heart of it was a yearning for the truth. It is that yearning which has led me to pursue a wide... Read more

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2024-10-08T02:31:57-05:00

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The Challenges Of Fame

Last updated on: October 8, 2024 at 2:31 am By Henry Karlson

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One of the ways those who set upon a path towards holiness, engaging all kinds of spiritual disciplines in order to attune themselves to God and God’s holiness, can be taken off that path is if they let themselves be seduced by the fame which often accompanies those who attain some degree of extraordinary spiritual attainment. Even if they do not seek fame for themselves, they might look for those who are famous and attach themselves to them, thinking that... Read more

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2024-10-06T02:35:33-05:00

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Confirming Representations Of The Faith

Last updated on: October 6, 2024 at 2:35 am By Henry Karlson

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The Christian faith is not faith in a book; it certainly is not a faith in mere men and women, and what they have to say. Yes, Scripture is invaluable, as it gives us a form of God’s revelation to humanity, and the Holy Spirit helped inspire the way it was written and collected together so that if it is engaged properly, it can point us to the transcendent truth. Yes, tradition is important, as it helps guide us in... Read more

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2024-10-03T02:17:00-05:00

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How To Be Good

Last updated on: October 3, 2024 at 2:17 am By Henry Karlson

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Love is humble, not proud, which is why it should not surprise us that God’s greatness is best revealed to us in the incarnation and not by coming to us in a form or activity which lies beyond our comprehension. That is, God humbly embraces human nature as the normative means by which the divine glory would be revealed to us, showing us, as St. Stephen of Muret suggests, that there is a place for us with God in heaven,... Read more

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2024-10-02T02:37:17-05:00

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Christ’s Way Is The Way Of Love Not Contention

Last updated on: October 2, 2024 at 2:37 am By Henry Karlson

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To non-Christians, the way many Christians act in the world must confuse them. For they often have read what Christ taught and see that Christians not only act contrary to Christ’s teachings, but demand others to do so as well. They read Christ teaching the way of love. They see he is meant to be the prince of peace. Yet, Christians, as history shows, have been far from peaceful, as they have engaged wars of aggression, and they have been... Read more

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Sayings of the Desert Fathers

2024-10-01T02:32:39-05:00

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PRS* XX Halloween

Last updated on: October 1, 2024 at 2:32 am By Henry Karlson

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Every year, I see Christians saying we must not celebrate Halloween (and possibly other holidays like Christmas). Usually, one or two reasons are given. The first is that they say the day is a pagan holiday, and Christians should have nothing to do with paganism. They recount a highly constructed (and false) narrative of pagan traditions, showing the supposed connections between the celebration of Halloween (and Christmas) today with paganism of old. Even if the reconstructed history were true, the... Read more

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2024-09-29T02:32:59-05:00

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Translating The Truth Into Words

Last updated on: September 29, 2024 at 2:32 am By Henry Karlson

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At the heart of the Christian faith is the teaching of the incarnation, and through the incarnation, the revelation of the Trinity. While we might have found hints concerning the Trinitarian nature of God through natural revelation, we would not have been able to come to conclude its truth on our own, especially because the teaching o the Trinity transcends our comprehension. We must always keep in mind that the truth transcends us, and if it transcends us, it transcends... Read more

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