Words in Flesh
A dad suspects the divine-created Word always and in all things
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Death in Augustine’s Confessions (opens the original)
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God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living- Wisdom 1.13 -IMust the joy of resurrection require the kiss of death? It seems so. How could you return from death without first having died? And in general we can hardly deny the myriad ways that “greater sorrow issues in greater joy”: a costlier war sweetens the emperor’s victory, graver peril brightens the glory of a sailor’s deft escape, sharper hunger deepe
Have the Courage to Discover Yourself for Yourself (opens the original)
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Pre-term meetings this year swirled around the challenge of AI use in education. I’m generally an AI skeptic, though not often on the grounds that others are. For example, I’m not sure one can make a cogent argument against the very possibility that some configuration of matter might facilitate the necessary conditions for self-consciousness to arise, since, of course, anyone who holds that there’s no inherent contradiction between a broadly classical view of the soul and the aeons-long process
Love God (opens the original)
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Some students organized a special worship service around the theme of love. This theme had four facets: love God, love friends, love enemies, love neighbors. A speaker was assigned to each facet, and I was given the first. Mine was the least interesting reflection, especially since the “love enemies” meditation was given by a Chinese Christian recounting how odd it was for him to hear J.D. Vance claim that Jesus demands the most intuitive, natural, concentric-circle-emanating “order” of love. I
5 Theses on Paul (opens the original)
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“Modern exegesis has taught us that we can no longer reasonably overlook the fact that within what we call one Sacred Scripture, within the New as well as the Old Testament, the assertions undergo a history and a development. No doubt the contents of Scripture are all dogma, quoad nos, and not just debatable theology. But it is equally certain that we must affirm that much of this scriptural dogma, which has for us the quality of inerrant assertions of revelation, is itself derivative theology w
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