“We have seen that the early church fathers didn’t have clarity on justification by faith alone. At the same time, they didn’t… — Thomas R. Schreiner Copy Share Image
“Calvin unceasingly studied the church fathers and the medieval doctors, and this was reflected in his writings. He saw himself engaged in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and,… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Charles Kahn offers the following summary of how a new metaphysics takes shape in Islamic philosophy: 'My general view of the historical… — James Conant Copy Share Image
Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church,… — Origen Copy Share Image
“I’m concerned about the pastor who is a chief executive instead of a contemplative sage. The pastor is called to a contemplative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“vision. The dynamic psychology described in this book largely focuses on the interface of psychology with what Rudolf Otto called the numinous.… — John G. Shobris Copy Share Image
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The so-called Church Fathers are not some theologians as we know them nowadays. They were close to the teaching of the Apostles… — Notker Wolf Copy Share Image
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Remaining" is an essential part… What the Church Fathers call perseverantia–patient steadfastness in communion with the Lord amid all the vicissitudes of… — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Copy Share Image
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of… — Gail Buckley Copy Share Image
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“This is the homely heart of Incarnation, this meeting of God in man with men and women, this simple face of divine… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
“The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“Paradise is not a garden of bliss and changeless perfection where the lions lie down like lambs (what would they eat?) and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“This was borne out again in October 1996 when Pope John Paul II, standing in the context of a train of Catholic… — Mark Shea Copy Share Image
The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“Here we must examine the classical understanding of happiness proclaimed by Moses, Solomon, Jesus, Aristotle, Plato, the church fathers and medieval theologians,… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“...the early church fathers provide abundant evidence that gifts such as prophecy and miracles continued in their own time, even if not… — Craig Keener Copy Share Image
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