by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon When we say that God made the Cosmos in freedom, we mean that nothing outside of God had to be. Modern philosophers ask---as philosophers have done for centuries---why is there something instead of nothing? This very sane question rests on the simple insight that … [Read more...]
Why The Eternal Word Was Baptized
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...]
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