Sublime

New Testament scholar Craig Evans says:

A system of explanations for all natural and social phenomena creates what Peter Berger calls the “plausibility structure.” Explanations of phenomena create a structure for what we assume is plausible. These explanations that modernity has given us make the acting and speaking of the God of Israel incoherent. In other words, incoherence is that whi

The central elements in the Marrow Controversy remain some of the most important pastoral issues of today.

Gaius Julius Zoilos

I will argue that the postmodern church could do nothing better than be ancient, that the most powerful way to reach a postmodern world is by recovering tradition, and that the most effective means of discipleship is found in liturgy.

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

Note that Marcus concludes by painting a very compassionate picture. We are all here to work together, he says, like parts of a body. We are all part of a whole. We need each other to function, and petty conflicts do not serve the greater good. His aim, then, is not to avoid those he doesn’t like but to find a way around the clashing of personaliti

Stoicism is a school of philosophy founded in classical Greece that flowered in the Roman Empire and has been reinvigorated by modern interpreters.