Sublime

The term irresistible grace is subject to misunderstanding, however, since it seems to imply that people do not make a voluntary, willing choice in responding to the gospel—a wrong idea, and a wrong understanding of the term irresistible grace. The term does preserve something valuable, however, because it indicates that God’s work reaches into our

L’utilisation du terme « conversion » pour évoquer l’ensemble des écoles de la philosophie antique apparaît sous la plume de Pierre Hadot 6. Ce dernier montre qu’il y a un passage d’une vie soucieuse, anxieuse, à une vie où l’homme devient maître de soi, de sa conscience de soi et de sa place dans le monde. L’étymologie de conversion, conversio, a

This long-held dogma was formalized at the 1545 Council of Trent, when the Church declared it an outrage to the Holy Ghost to attribute any virtue to the chrism. To argue otherwise, as the Gnostics, Montanists, and other early non-Catholic Christians once had, was reason to be persecuted, converted by force, or murdered. The quaint idea of

Alors il n'est pas surprenant qu'à partir de la modernité, toute Ascension, de quelque variété qu'elle soit, est pratiquement devenue le nouveau péché. L'avènement de la modernité, le rejet de l'Ascension, et l'adoption d'un monde purement Descendu - ils sont tous nés ensemble. Et nous voici sur la piste du déni occidental moderne des dimensions

the mythic premises of a religion are systematized, beneath the stern and intelligent eyes of an orthodox dogmatism, into a fixed sum of historical events;

We sing Maranatha! but we are not a panicked people. As the writer Marilynne Robinson once said, “Fear is not a Christian habit of mind.”41 That is not to condone apathy but rather to encourage hope, a way of laboring toward a future that arrives as a gift. This is rooted in a profound trust in a God who is a giver all the way down, a Creator whose