by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon From the traditional accounts of Jesus' Baptism, the Gospel of John preserves only one detail: the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus in the likeness of a dove. This detail is preserved, moreover, not directly in narrative itself, but in a quotation from John the … [Read more...]
Straight Lines, Angles and Running Around In Circles
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon In all four Gospels, the standard format is the "incident." They have an episodic structure; each Gospel is a series of what the Greeks called the epeisodos or epeisodion. The Gospels are made up of short stories; although each gospel is an integral literary … [Read more...]
Paul On Providence And Predestination
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon Augustine's Mistake (or we could say 'Calvin's Confusion') is one of the deepest and most tragic blunders in the history of theology. Toward the end of a long reflection on the Holy Spirit---Romans 8---the Apostle Paul introduces the theme of Divine Providence, the … [Read more...]
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