Tag Archives: Jesus Christ

Roland, Rebirth, and Resurrection: A Comparative Eschatology of Paramahansa Yogananda and Origen of Alexandria

Posted on 5 April 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by David Armstrong The last century has seen a lot of great scholarship on a variety of interrelated topics in biblical studies, with some helpful new starting points for doing critical work on Jewish and Christian antiquity. On the one … Continue reading →

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American gods, American idols

Posted on 22 March 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by John Stamps “My little children, guard yourselves from idols.” (1 John 5:21) The US is not and never has been secular. We are awash with gods. Gods and goddesses surround us. The whole universe is filled with deities. We … Continue reading →

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Desiring Dragons

Posted on 2 March 2021 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Jonathan Geltner Part I: Glimpse But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting … Continue reading →

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Faith-as-Trust and Faith-as-Authentication

Posted on 7 December 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Semyon Frank Semyon Lyudvigovich Frank was, in the judgment of his biographer Philip Boobbyer, “arguably Russia’s greatest twentieth-century philosopher.” Born in 1877 in Moscow and raised in Judaism, Frank became a revolutionary atheist as a teenager, before reflection led … Continue reading →

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Apollinarius and the Truncated Humanity of Christ

Posted on 24 November 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Virtually all I know about Apollinaris of Laodicea is that his heresy elicited a memorable response from St Gregory the Theologian: “What has not been assumed has not been healed.” So in preparation for reading the letters of Gregory to … Continue reading →

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Slowly Reading St Athanasius: the God we didn’t invent, rotten avocados, and other vast imponderables

Posted on 8 July 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by John Stamps Kids love to ask their parents questions. Kids think nothing of asking tough questions. They ask them as easily as they eat or play or sleep. They think these questions are harm­less. But the children are wrong. … Continue reading →

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Justification, Faith, and the Radical Question of Existence

Posted on 25 June 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Robert W. Jenson The gospel, in anyone’s version, is a promise that our life will be fulfilled by Christ. When­ever this promise is made, someone will rise and ask, But if he is to bring our meaning, what then is our … Continue reading →

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Introducing St Theodore of Tarsus

Posted on 23 June 2020 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Fr James Siemens, Ph.D. Work by unknowns is easy to ignore. Those whose contributions failed to find a recorder in their time, or a relay later, slip from memory and get dismissed as insignificant. This is especially the case … Continue reading →

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