“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
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
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
“[On the Human Soul] While the Bible offers a clear distinction that the soul is separate from the body and discusses the… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,… — Irenaeus of Lyons 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
Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church,… — Origen Copy Share Image
“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
“By the early fifth century, the Church that had begun as a tiny group of fishermen and other poor people meeting in… — Norman F. Cantor 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
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