Opus Dei Exposed
My review of Gareth Gore’s engrossing exposé of Opus Dei in U.S. Catholic.
Category: Christianity
Jennifer Fulwiler’s New Book
Over at Forbes, my review of Something Other than God.
Good Friday
“Now the kind of acceptance that Jesus offered created around him a commune of people who were liberated, able to love one another, able to accept one another. There are many things to be said about this little group, but one of the most obvious things is that it posed a threat to the established… Continue reading Good Friday
The Return of Traducianism?
In the doctrine of the soul [Origen] was faced by a choice between three possible doctrines: (a) the Creationist view that God creates each soul for each individual as conceived and born; (b) the Traducianist view that the soul is derived, like the body, from the parents; (c) the Platonic Pre-existence theory, according to which… Continue reading The Return of Traducianism?
The Problem of the Soul
A similar uneasiness with this kind of distinction has appeared more recently within Roman Catholic theology, due no doubt in part to a sense that the notion of a self-subsistent soul is non-scriptural and/or that the notion of God’s immediately creating each human soul does not fit easily into the continuum of living beings that… Continue reading The Problem of the Soul