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December 13, 2013 By Fr. John A. Peck

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...]

Filed Under: Biblical Resources, Reardon, Patrick Fr. Tagged With: angles, circular reasoning, Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, GK Chesterton, lines

November 30, 2013 By Fr. John A. Peck

The Thinking Part Of The Universe

by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon The human being is not only a part of the created Universe; he is also the thinking part. Human thought is the only place where the Cosmos is conscious, critical, and self-reflective. It is the sole forum where Creation can examine itself, render an assessment, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biblical Resources, Reardon, Patrick Fr., Sermon Resources Tagged With: christ, historical, St. Paul, thinking

November 22, 2013 By Fr. John A. Peck

Therapeutic Substitutionary Atonement

by Fr. Stephen Freeman For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures… (1 Cor. 15:3-4) No statement is more central to the Christian … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apologetics, Biblical Resources, Sermon Resources, Theology Tagged With: atonement, Fr. Stephen Freeman, substitutionary, therapeutic

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