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Holy Week with Herbert: The Father Didn’t Send the Son to Die
I’m marking Holy Week again by reading the work of the late Herbert McCabe, a Dominican philosopher who had a gift for articulating the ancient Christian tradition in concise, clear, crisp prose. “In...
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Holy Week with Herbert: Why Was Jesus Not Stoned to Death?
I’m marking another Holy Week by reading the work of the late Dominican philosopher Herbert McCabe. Here, McCabe cautions against any understandings of the cross that are exclusively religious or...
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Holy Week with Herbert: The Cross is Original Sin
Many of ‘theories’ of the atonement rely upon a literal reading of the ‘Fall’ in Genesis to which probably Jesus himself, being a Jew and Rabbi, did not subscribe. That’s not the only problem with how...
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Holy Week with Herbert: The Father Can Only Love the Son
Holy Thursday is often called ‘Maundy Thursday’ from the Latin word ‘mandatum.’ Thought most Christians mark the day by recalling the Passover meal Christ celebrated with his disciples, ‘Maundy’...
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Holy Week with Herbert: Easter is Not Unambiguous
Christ is Risen. He is Risen indeed. And indeed (sorry NT Wright) it’s not with ambiguity. I marked this Holy Week by dipping again into the work of the late Dominican philosopher, Herbert McCabe. Here...
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Cross Bearers or Cross-Builders?
For the past 18 months, I’ve been working on writing a catechism, a distillation of the faith into concise questions and answers with brief supporting scriptures that could be the starting point for a...
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The Most Common American Heresy
I’ve had funerals and death on the brain this past week. It comes with the job. I’m just happy that for the first time in over a year it’s not my own death and funeral that’s lingering on the brain....
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No, You Can’t Choose (Eternal) Hell
If it’s true, as the many earnest and somber admonishments I’ve received in response to my recent infernal posts testify, that God consigns or consents his creatures to an eternal hell then, begs the...
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Is satan real?
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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Aren’t All Religions Just Different Paths to the Same Goal?
I’ve become convinced that its important for the Church to inoculate our young people with a healthy dose of catechesis before we ship them off to college, just enough so that when they first hear...
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