Fr John Allen Green OFM – John Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308) was a Franciscan philosopher and theologian who in many ways paralleled Bonaventure’s ideas. Duns Scotus helped develop the doctrine of the univocity of being....
Might the authority of those who suffer bring the diverse cultural and social worlds together? —Johann Baptist Metz [1] Fr John Allen Green OFM – This profound question about suffering from a modern German theologian succinctly...
Fr John Allen Green OFM – Most religious searches begin with one massive misperception. People tend to start by making a very unfortunate, yet understandable, division between the sacred and the profane worlds. Early...
“We confess together that all persons depend completely on the saving grace of God for their salvation. The freedom they possess in relation to persons and the things of this world is no freedom...
From: Gary Reabow, Hillcrest, KZN – Further to Michael Shackleton’s reply to J Quirk (October 13) regarding creation, the following thoughts come to mind. Man did not create the basic physical laws and principles...
When we speak of God the Father and his Son born, begotten and so on, we imply that the Father is the origin or source of the Son. Then we say the Holy Spirit...
Catholics and other Christians have grown up believing in the Resurrection, but the Apostles themselves were among the first who were skeptical that Jesus arose from the dead. They didn’t believe it at first...
Students in professor Chad Pecknold’s newest class come from Canada, Uruguay, France, Germany, England, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and all across the United States, but two things unite them all – a printed copy...
John Lee, Johannesburg – Surrounded as we are by Christian fundamentalists and other anti-Catholics, we Catholics need to have at least some knowledge of fundamentalist dispensationalism, and what is termed “the rapture”. Dispensationalism is...
God’s first call to us is to be human. Hence St Irenaeus could say: “The glory of God is man fully alive.” The 19th-century Danish theologian and philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said: “To need God is...
Was Jesus Christ killed? Can God be killed? Did Jesus Christ die? Can God die? Jesus chose the moment of his death. Would that be a type of suicide? Or did he detach his...
Fr RALPH DE HAHN looks at the meaning of the crucifix to us today. We know from the four evangelists that during his three years of ministry on earth, Jesus of Nazareth preached from many pulpits....
