The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
Posted in Catholic, Christianity, Religion, Theology on May 30th, 2008
I’m on Dr. Ambrosio’s email list, and today’s mailing included an article on Faith vs. Works. Dr. Ambrosio happens to be a member of my parish, and used to be a professor at the University of Dallas, but now he’s primarily a conference speaker, and he has his website which is full of good articles [...]
Posted in Christianity, Religion, Theology on May 10th, 2008
I’m studying for my Patristic and Byzantine Theology final, and I’m rereading First Principles written by Origen between 220 and 230. Here is a passage I have marked as “The Rule of Faith”.
When we find many who think they hold the doctrine of Christ, some of them differing in their beliefs from the Christians of [...]
Posted in C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Music on May 3rd, 2008
I just read a beautiful interview with Annie Herring, who used to be a member of the band, “The 2nd Chapter of Acts”. The interview is about an album they did in the 70s called “The Roar of Love”, which was kind of a gospel, Jesus-music, rock opera inspired by The Lion, the Witch, and [...]
Posted in Christianity, History, Religion on May 2nd, 2008
I made a claim in a previous post that Christianity was responsible for the development of hospitals, which seemed to be called into question by a comment I received. I also today got a free subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica for use on my weblog that allows me to link to articles. I thought I would [...]