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2023-01-09T03:46:47-05:00

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Personalism Not Individualism Nor Collectivism

Last updated on: January 9, 2023 at 3:46 am By Henry Karlson

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Christian personalism is founded upon and engages what is learned from the teaching of the Trinity. As the name suggests, personalism engages the category of the person. Fundamental to its presentation is the belief that a person does not exist outside of a relationship with other persons. This is true, not only in humanity, but in the divinity. The eternal relations of the three persons of the Trinity confirm that God is not some impersonal divine force. Christian personalism, seeing... Read more

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2023-01-08T02:58:12-05:00

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The Church Of Christ And Its Historical Institution

Last updated on: January 8, 2023 at 2:58 am By Henry Karlson

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The mystical body of Christ, the church of Christ, subsists in the institutional Catholic church. This means that the Catholic church continues to bring and reveal the presence of Christ to the world. Yet it also means that Christ’s presence does not have to be seem as limited to the institutional church, that it can, at least in theory, subsist in other institutions or groups of people. This reality is something which is difficult to grasp, and for that reason,... Read more

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2023-01-06T03:41:21-05:00

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Jesus, The Begotten Son Of God

Last updated on: January 6, 2023 at 3:41 am By Henry Karlson

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One famous heresy, popular especially at the inception of the Christian faith, is that of Adoptionism. It taught that Jesus was made the adopted Son of God the Father. Because the implications of that teaching, and the time in which Jesus was said to become adopted by God (such as at his baptism, resurrection, or his ascension), there were various different forms of the heresy, but that does not mean they did not hold enough in common for them to... Read more

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2023-01-04T03:57:00-05:00

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The Funeral Of Benedict XVI And The End Of An Era

Last updated on: January 4, 2023 at 3:57 am By Henry Karlson

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The funeral for Pope-Emeritus Benedict XVI brings to a conclusion a rather difficult era for Catholicism. While Benedict was no longer Pope, and consistently pointed that out, many of his would-be followers did not want to believe this and acted as if he were the true Pope, ignoring or denouncing Pope Francis. During this time, we also saw that some of those who reluctantly admitted that Benedict XVI had legitimately resigned from the papacy and acknowledged Francis was Pope nonetheless... Read more

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2023-01-03T03:48:11-05:00

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Books And Other Goods

Last updated on: January 3, 2023 at 3:48 am By Henry Karlson

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One of the things the early desert father and mothers learned is that different people were called to different kinds of livelihoods, different goods. For them, that good was that of an ascetic life, one which was to be not only simple, but free from worldly goods. They radically entrusted themselves to the benevolence of God, trusting that God would help them not only survive in some of the harshest living conditions possible, but they would come to experience the... Read more

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2023-01-01T03:49:16-05:00

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What Is In A Name?

Last updated on: January 1, 2023 at 3:49 am By Henry Karlson

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When writing an icon, only when every other element is finished, and the figure or event has been properly rendered, will an iconographer place upon it the name of the person being depicted on the icon. Writing the name on the icon is believed to be one of the most important elements in its production because it is with and through the name a connection between the saint depicted and the icon is established. This is why, even if we... Read more

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2022-12-30T03:47:09-05:00

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Our Changing Relationship With An Unchangeable God

Last updated on: December 30, 2022 at 3:47 am By Henry Karlson

The relationship which exists between God and us, between God and creation, is impossible to fully explain because a part of it, God’s reality and experience of it, transcends our comprehension. We can, and will, discuss it using human conventions, but we must accept that when we do so, we can only approximate, often through analogies, what it is like for God. Our own experience of it is much easier to discuss, but even, we find ourselves struggling to put... Read more

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2022-12-28T03:06:11-05:00

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Indifference To COVID Is Indifference To The Value Of Life

Last updated on: December 28, 2022 at 3:06 am By Henry Karlson

Life is a precious gift to be honored and preserved. This does not mean we should artificially preserve life indefinitely, hooked up on a machine, never allowing a person to go to their natural death. When we do that, what they have is not true life, but its shadow, and with it, the person has lost most if not all the dignity which should be associated with life in the process. On the other hand, we should not be indifferent... Read more

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2022-12-27T03:49:01-05:00

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Solovyov’s “Free Theocracy” Vs. Integralism

Last updated on: December 27, 2022 at 3:49 am By Henry Karlson

One of the things being promoted by various Christian is the idea of Christian integralism, the notion that everything in the world should find itself subsumed into a Christian state, a state where Christian moral principles alone serve as the foundation of for its legal system. Such integralists also think that if people are unwilling to enter in and follow such a state, they can and should be forced to do so. Integralists deny the pluralism promoted by religious, as... Read more

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2022-12-25T03:04:44-05:00

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The Transcendent Mystery Of Christ’s Nativity

Last updated on: December 25, 2022 at 3:04 am By Henry Karlson

Christ is Born! We have become so accustomed to hearing the story of Christ’s birth, telling it again and again, listening to it year after year, reflecting upon the same things over and over again, it almost feels as if there is nothing more to say. All its mystery has been taken away. That is because we come the story looking merely for facts which we can recite instead of trying to find a way to integrate ourselves into the... Read more

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