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Spirituality, Part 5: The Substitutes and the Synthesizers: Angels, Augustine, Aquinas

Posted on May 15, 2017 by admin

As in many times past, the phenomenon of angels is upon us again as common religiosity looks to the heavens for some succor the visions of God and Jesus and saints have, for sundry reasons, ceased to provide. They appear … Continue reading →

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Spirituality, Part 4: Aspects of our genetic code: Jesus, Paul, John

Posted on March 31, 2017 by admin

In contrariety to Greek thought, there stand the visions of man rooted in the spiritualities of Judaism and of Judaism as reinterpreted by Jesus. The quintessential elements of Judaism are embedded in a covenant between the people descended from Abraham … Continue reading →

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Spirituality, Part 3: Aspects of our genetic code: Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus

Posted on March 9, 2017 by admin

The spurious rupture twixt spirit and matter is anciently rooted in the divide between the pragmatics of rationalizing and manipulating the world, using the world, and the embracing of the world as at-one with man, man and world as sharing … Continue reading →

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Spirituality, Part 2: From Reservations to Resurrection, The Evolution of God

Posted on February 7, 2017 by admin

I—The God Ambiguity God evolves. While this declaration stands the foundation of process theology, I intend it here to stand first and simply as an historical statement. The human understanding of God evolves as man comes to more fully understand … Continue reading →

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Spirituality, Finding the Full Voice of Our Nature

Posted on June 24, 2016 by admin

Over lunch one day an elderly cleric, an erudite and cultured man, confided in me that he was uncomfortable with eating for the act of ingestion reminded him that he was an animal. I admit I can be a wee … Continue reading →

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Concrete Grace

Posted on April 25, 2016 by admin

Aristotle’s epistemology, and by extension that of his disciples, particularly Aquinas, is a wonderment of detail. It provides us a theoretical landscape that moves from the receptivity for sensation to the actualization of the concept. It might be compared to … Continue reading →

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on Memory and Things Past

Posted on April 10, 2016 by admin

The feasts of Easter and Christmas invariably excite news magazines to bring forward an article or two on Jesus. This Paschaltide, Maclean’s, Canada’s preeminent weekly, featured an article by Brian Bethune on two recent works: Bart Ehrman’s Jesus Before the … Continue reading →

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