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...]
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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