Explore How Your Experience of Beauty Intersects with Faith in God Our experience of beauty drives our desires, and our desires drive our actions. We tend to follow our passions down a path that leads us to becoming one type of person or another: and so, beauty shapes who we […]
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Theological Reflections on Imagination, Wonder, and Beauty “To think God through a creature is to be elevated by thinking of a creature to thinking of God as if through an intermediary stairway.” Bonaventure, Commentary on the Sentences “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love” (1 Co. 13:13). St. […]
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Understanding Christian Apologetics “But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord has holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.” 1 Pet. 3:15 (ESV) Apologia in Greek means […]
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The Practices and Principles that Shape our Engagement with Scripture The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are foundational for the Christian faith, both from the standpoint of doctrine and practice. It is not surprising, therefore, that they have been subjected to every sort of dispute and debate: how […]
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In the Medieval university, collationes (“gatherings” or “conferences”) were conversations often held in the evenings in the presence of a small group of students and teachers. More informal than disputations and often somewhat experimental, they were unique places to engage the thought of the teacher. This practice is the inspiration […]
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A Practical Field Guide to Wonder and Meaning in Life “How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who […]
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Summoned to Mystery by the Creator The truth of God’s being exceeds any ability to grasp. And yet, for that very reason, it offers an inexhaustible richness to our thinking. This infinite richness and complexity is the only thing that will satisfy minds designed to contemplate unceasingly, and hearts designed […]
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A Theology of the Imagination The imagination, often neglected at various times in the Christian tradition, is enjoying a new renaissance in Christian thought, thanks to the work of thinkers like C.S. Lewis and the Inklings, musicians like Jeremy Begbie and Andrew Peterson, and artists like Makoto Fujimura and Bruce […]
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